March 25, 2019
The domestic market for kampo medicines — a traditional medical system that utilizes the reactions of the human body for therapeutic interventions — has been expanding. Tsumura & Co. has embarked ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP-Jiji) — Apple looks to begin a fresh reinvention on Monday as it rolls out Hollywood stars for its new streaming television service, part of a broad shift of direction for the Cal...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) and JXTG Holdings, Inc. said Friday they would build one of the world’s biggest hydrogen stations in Tokyo by mid-2020, marki...
NAGOYA (Jiji Press) — Major Japanese electric companies are seeking to diversify their sources of profits through the use of power transmission and distribution networks, including steel towers and ...
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Teams from the three U.S. airlines that own 737 MAX jets headed to Boeing Co.’s factory in Renton, Wash., to review a software upgrade on Saturday, as U.S. regulator...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nomura Holdings Inc. and Carlyle Group on Saturday announced the success of their ¥57 billion (about $518 million) tender offer for Japanese beer maker Orion Breweries Ltd. T...
MILAN (AP) — Italy’s head of state told visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that China’s new “Silk Road” linking Europe and Asia must be a “two-way street,” addressing concer...
TORONTO (AP) — China has stopped all new purchases of Canadian canola seeds in what some see as retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei. The Canola Council...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Inter-American Development Bank on Friday called off next week’s meeting of its 48 member countries in China after Beijing refused to allow a representative of Venezuel...
BEIJING (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook encouraged China to keep opening up its economy, as his company grapples with weaker demand from the nation and uncertainty over it...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he will nominate Stephen Moore, a conservative economic analyst and frequent critic of the Federal Reserve, to fill a vacancy on the F...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump criticized European automakers on Friday, suggesting he could impose tariffs on imports from companies such as BMW and Mercedes unless they build more ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Bank of Japan’s quarterly Tankan survey for March is likely to show a slump in business sentiment among major Japanese manufacturers, according to the latest projections ...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Three in four Japanese companies expect U.S.-China trade frictions to last until at least late this year, a sharp contrast to market hopes that presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinp...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Tesla Inc. filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a former engineer at the company, claiming he copied the source code for its Autopilot technology before joining a Chinese s...
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Uber Technologies Inc. has selected the New York Stock Exchange for its imminent initial public offering, handing the trading floor what could be one of the five biggest...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Tencent Holdings signaled it will reduce its reliance on gaming in China, where a regulatory review and one-off investment costs led to its sharpest-ever quarterly profit drop...
As part of efforts to clamp down on money laundering, financial institutions are bolstering checks and confirming additional details when individuals and companies open bank accounts and send money ov...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Eisai Co. on Friday said it has begun phase 3 clinical trials of Alzheimer’s treatment BAN2401, a day after the Japanese drugmaker and U.S. partner Biogen Inc. scrapped trials f...
NEW YORK (AP) — Levi Strauss & Co.’s return to the public markets got an enthusiastic reception from investors who believe the iconic brand is ready for a comeback — and still has a lot more roo...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s annual core consumer inflation slowed in February as gasoline costs fell for the first time in more than two years, keeping the central bank under pressure to maintain, o...
WASHINGTON/JAKARTA (Reuters) — Boeing Co. plans to offer as standard a safety feature that might have warned earlier of problems that possibly played a role in the crashes of Ethiopian and Indonesia...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has launched a pilot program to shorten opening hours at some of its directly run outlets across the country in order to consider whether to revise its p...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Four British and U.S. investment firms said Wednesday they have proposed that Lixil Group Corp. hold an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting to remove its chairman and chief e...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A Teikoku Databank Ltd. survey has shown that 43.6 percent of companies in Japan expect the era change and related 10-day holiday to affect their business. Their expectations ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Personal spending in Japan during this year’s Golden Week holiday period, which features 10 straight days off until May 6, is expected to rise 7.6 percent from a year before,...
TOKYO/BEIJING (Bloomberg) — Carlos Ghosn went all-in on China by approving a plan to invest $9 billion, yet his successor at Nissan Motor Co. appears to be rolling that back amid signs the world’s...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The S&P 500 and the Dow ended lower on Wednesday as interest rate-sensitive financial stocks dragged down the indexes after the U.S. Federal Reserve affirmed a dovish monetary ...
NAGOYA (Reuters) — Toyota Motor Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp. on Wednesday said they planned to produce electric vehicles (EVs) and compact cars for each other to better compete with fast-changing t...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe’s antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time in less than two years, ordering the tech giant to pay €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) for...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corp. climbed as much as 39 percent Wednesday after receiving its first analyst rating, a signal that the Canadian small-cap is finally attracting a...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co. plans to spend about $900 million and hire about 900 workers to build electric and self-driving vehicles in Michigan, while moving production of a smal...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — U.S. Federal Reserve officials scaled back their projected interest rate increases this year to zero and said they would end the drawdown of central bank bond holdings in Sept...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union will discuss a more defensive strategy on China on Thursday, potentially signaling an end to the unfettered access that Chinese business has enjoyed in Europ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said Wednesday that China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd is making it very difficult for European carriers to drop the company f...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government downgraded its basic assessment of the country’s economy Wednesday due to some weakness in exports and industrial production, marking the first downward revisio...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Wig maker Aderans Co. said Tuesday it has teamed with bioventure firm Spiber Inc. to develop protein-based artificial hair that is similar to natural hair. Tokyo-based Aderans...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — The United States aims to conclude a comprehensive free trade agreement with Japan on areas including services, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a report submitted to C...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin plan to travel to China next week for another round of trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The estimated number of visitors to Japan in February climbed 3.8 percent from a year earlier to 2,604,300, a record high for the month, the Japan National Tourism Organization...
NEW YORK (AP) — Google on Tuesday unveiled a video-game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on the traditional video-game business.
The platform will store a game-playing ...
SAO PAULO/DETROIT (Reuters) — General Motors Co. said Tuesday it would invest $2.7 billion in two Brazilian factories over the next five years, sparing them from a shakeup of the automaker’s oper...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexico’s government said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Brazil on the free trade of light vehicles, subject to a 40 percent regional content requirement, paving ...
CESKE BUDEJOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) — The Budejovicky Budvar brewery in the Czech Republic managed to survive a decades-long trademark battle over whether it could call its beer Budweiser. But no...
ADDIS ABABA/PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Europe and Canada said they would seek their own guarantees over the safety of Boeing’s 737 MAX, further complicating plans to get the aircraft flying worl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives transportation committee and another key Democrat asked the Transportation Department’s inspector general on Tuesday to exa...
SEATTLE (Reuters) — Boeing Co.’s commercial airplane division, facing its biggest crisis in years following deadly crashes of its flagship 737 MAX aircraft, has brought in a new vice president of ...
SEOUL (Reuters) — Confidence among Asian companies held near three-year lows in the first quarter as the U.S.-China trade dispute dragged on, weighing down a global economy already on a downward pat...
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) — An industry body representing global asset managers in Asia has urged China to lift foreign ownership caps in listed companies, two weeks after the restrictions disrup...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A third-party panel investigating a series of defects in Leopalace21 Corp. apartment buildings said Monday that the company’s founder and then president wanted the use of an ...
THA MUANG, Thailand (AP) — Fall armyworms, a longtime American pest, are munching their way around the globe, raising alarm now in Asia after entrenching themselves in Africa.
Experts say the insec...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The agriculture ministry has unveiled a plan to promote the spread of drones for agriculture to cope with the aging of farmers and shortages of successors of farms in the count...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lyft officially kicked off the road show for its initial public offering, saying Monday it plans to put more than 30 million shares up for sale with an anticipated price of between ...
BEIJING (Reuters) — The “grey rhino” risks in China’s financial sector are rising and regulators will step up efforts to control them, a senior official at the People’s Bank of China said in...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii would be the first U.S. state to ban most plastics at restaurants under legislation that aims to cut down on waste that pollutes the ocean. Dozens of cities across the Unite...
The Associated Press Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is buying Worldpay for about $35 billion to combine forces as financial transactions increasingly move online. The payment service ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes finished modestly higher on Monday, extending the market’s solid gains from a rally last week.
Energy companies notched the biggest gains after the price of U.S...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexico invited a host of international firms, including three U.S. companies, to bid on the construction of an $8 billion oil refinery, officials said Monday, as President An...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Delek Drilling said Monday it was considering listing its holdings in the Leviathan natural gas field off Israel’s Mediterranean coast on the London Stock Exchange as part o...
SEATTLE (Reuters) — Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg, facing the biggest crisis of his tenure, said Monday that the company understands “lives depend on the work we do” and w...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A government survey showed Monday that 91.9 percent of job-hunting university students in Japan who are set to graduate this spring had secured informal job offers as of Feb. 1...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan logged the first customs-cleared trade surplus in five months in February, with its imports posting a sharper drop than exports due to a decrease in crude oil imports ste...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Some of the biggest names in media and tech are gearing up to move into streaming, in what could be a major challenge to market leader Netflix. Apple is expected to make its...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — There is virtually no chance the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the coming week, since policymakers have all but promised to hold their fire as the global...
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP-Jiji) — Google is looking to transform internet-age game play, with an expected launch of a streaming service which uses the tech giant’s power in the internet cloud. Expected...
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc.’s former chief financial officer has joined Plenty Inc. in that role as the indoor farming start-up prepares for international expansion and improvements t...
TOKYO (Reuters) — The newly appointed chief executive of Walmart Inc.’s Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu on Monday denied the business was up for sale, following reports last year that the U.S. re...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks gained further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, with investor sentiment brightened by rises in U.S. equities on Friday. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ...
Haruhiko Kuroda is miles from where he wants to be. About 200 miles.
That’s the distance from Tokyo to Nagoya, where the Bank of Japan governor gave a very upbeat speech last year. Some interprete...
The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) — Japan’s first domestically produced passenger jet — will be delivered as per its revised schedule, according to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Delivery o...
ADDIS ABABA (AP) — Preliminary information from the flight data recorder of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed a week ago and killed 157 people shows “clear similarities” with an earlier ...
BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank, and domestic rival Commerzbank have decided to open talks on a possible merger, the lenders said Sunday in an announcement that followed month...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Subaru Enterprise Co. has said that it will close the movie theater Yurakucho Subaru-za in Tokyo’s busy Yurakucho area in mid-October after 53 years of business.
The subsid...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has had a very bad week, even in the context of a very bad year. The week of bad news actually started March 8 with a pr...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — India’s antitrust watchdog raided units of global commodities trader Glencore and two other firms in Mumbai on Saturday in an inquiry into alleged collusion on the price of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A huge study suggests the Apple Watch can detect a worrisome irregular heartbeat at least sometimes — but experts say more work is needed to tell if using wearable technology to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the World Bank faces a clear path toward approval as a nomination deadline passed on Thursday with no challengers, continuing the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Amazon.com Inc.’s planned second headquarters in northern Virginia cleared a key test on Saturday when local officials approved a proposed financial package worth an estima...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators charged Volkswagen and former CEO Martin Winterkorn with defrauding investors during its massive diesel emissions scandal. The charges from the U.S. Securities an...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade battles cost the U.S. economy $7.8 billion in lost gross domestic product in 2018, a study by a team of economists at leading American u...
With reducing the use of plastics becoming a global challenge, the Environment Ministry will start as early as next month a project to globally promote Japanese companies with technologies related to ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Trading house Itochu Corp. said Friday it has successfully completed its hostile tender offer for sports goods maker Descente Ltd. According to mergers and acquisitions adviso...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Business leaders from the Group of 20 economies called on the world’s major economies on Friday to secure the free circulation of data and information across borders.
Amid g...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese stocks are expected to search for direction this week, with few major market-moving factors in sight, market sources said. Last week, the 225-issue Nikkei average jum...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks staged a rally on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, with investor sentiment lifted by the yen’s weakening and rises in other Asian markets. The 225-issue Nikkei avera...
JOETSU, Niigata (Reuters) — In snow country along Japan’s northern coast, a small manufacturer of precision molds is feeling the pain of China’s economic slowdown.
Orders have slowed to a tri...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Wall Street’s beloved tech trade is back on. U.S. technology stocks this week took back their title as the stock market’s most profitable bet of the year, and the so-c...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s customs authority has lifted its suspension on imports of Tesla’s Model 3, an official in the authority’s news department told Reuters on Thursday. “We can conf...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Volkswagen AG said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may sue the German automaker over its failure to disclose its diesel emissions scandal to investors. VW said ...
KURASHIKI, Okayama (Jiji Press) — Nissan Motor Co. and its domestic partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Thursday they will release on March 28 a fully redesigned minivehicle series they jointly de...
A U.S. federal judge has issued a preliminary ruling that Qualcomm Inc. owes Apple Inc. nearly $1 billion in patent royalty rebate payments, though the decision is unlikely to result in Qualcomm writi...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is losing its product chief Chris Cox, a top-ranking executive who spent more than a decade at the company, just a week after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major new...
Toyota Motor Corp. said on Thursday it will invest $749 million in five U.S. plants and add 586 jobs as it boosts engine production capacity and adds new hybrid models to its lineup. U.S. President ...
WASHINGTON/PARIS/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) — French investigators on Friday will begin analyzing data from the black boxes of the Boeing 737 Max plane that crashed after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Financial Services Agency will toughen its surveillance of regional bank management as the business environment remains severe for such lenders, Jiji Press learned Wednesda...
HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — Regulators in some Asian countries are getting tougher on auditors after landmark defaults, in an increasingly high-stakes game as investors call for earlier warning signs a...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Daiwa House Industry Co. said Wednesday that a large amount of funds is likely to have been misappropriated at an affiliate in the Chinese city of Dalian.
The amount of the mi...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — U.S. federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook Inc. struck with some of the world’s largest technology companies, The New York ...
Facebook said on Wednesday some users around the world were facing trouble in accessing its widely used Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook apps, making it one of the longest outages the company has suf...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China, and insisted that any deal include protections for intellectual property,...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Britain on Wednesday slashed its 2019 economic growth forecast, as finance minister Philip Hammond said lifting Brexit’s “cloud of uncertainty” was Parliament’s “most u...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will recall about 965,000 gasoline-powered vehicles in the United States and Canada that do not meet emissions standards and will replace their c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Aerospace giant Boeing is a juggernaut in Washington, employing a team of in-house lobbyists and blue chip firms as part of a multimillion dollar influence operation built to shape...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry on Thursday told overseas airlines not to use the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for flights to and over Japan for the time bei...
As labor-management talks for the year reached their climax on Wednesday, management at major Japanese companies made clear their cautious stance on offering their workers a pay-scale increase, which ...
The relaxation of regulations on drone operations has spurred the expansion of their fields of use, with some delivering parcels or doing challenging infrastructural inspections. The latest in drones ...
Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA of France and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. have announced a new board to oversee the alliance of the three automakers, signaling a desire to make a clean break from the system ...
DOHA (Reuters) — U.S. and Taliban negotiators wrapped up their longest round of peace talks on Tuesday with progress made but no agreement on when foreign troops might withdraw, officials from both ...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Big Japanese firms were set to offer smaller pay increases this year at annual wage talks that started Wednesday as the economy sputters, tempering hopes that domestic consumption ...
LONDON (Jiji Press) — Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday that it will end output of Infiniti brand luxury cars at its plant in Sunderland, England, as early as around the middle of this year, as part of...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Line Corp. and Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. said Tuesday that they have started a service enabling people to gift insurance products to acquaintances and others with th...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s machinery orders fell in January at the fastest pace in four months due to declining demand in the auto and telecommunications equipment sectors as the U.S.-China trade w...
DETROIT (AP) — A type of Takata airbag inflator once thought to be safe has now come under scrutiny after a crash and explosion in Maryland injured the driver of a Honda minivan. The incident forc...
WOLFSBURG, Germany (Reuters) — Volkswagen will cut jobs as it speeds up the rollout of less labor-intensive electric cars and will review its sprawling portfolio of brands as it battles to reverse a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. trade negotiator suggests that the U.S. and China are nearing an agreement that would end their trade conflict, but wouldn’t commit to a specific time frame.
“Our...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Commission set out a 10-point plan on Tuesday for more balanced economic relations with China, urging European Union leaders to back its ideas to curb Chinese state...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — European Union governments on Tuesday scrapped a plan to introduce an EU-wide digital tax as some states opposed it, the Romanian presidency of the EU said. The move is likely...
PARIS (Reuters) — The United States thinks a French plan for a tax specifically targeting digital companies would be discriminatory, a senior U.S. Treasury official said Tuesday. France, Britain, I...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Germany will define its own security standards for a new 5G mobile network, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday, after Washington said it would scale back data-sharing with Berl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released its proposed rule lifting a summer ban on higher-ethanol blends of gasoline to help farmers, putting the agency on...
MALI STON, Croatia (AP) — Oyster farming is the pride of this small town in the south of Croatia’s Adriatic Sea coast. But tasting the famed local delicacy may not be a good idea at the moment.
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Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA of France and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. have announced a new board to oversee the alliance of the three automakers, signaling a desire to make a clean break from the system ...
NANTERRE, France (AFP-Jiji) — French prosecutors have begun an inquiry into the lavish wedding party at the Palace of Versailles for former Renault and Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, part of which wa...
YOKOHAMA (Reuters) — Nissan Motor and France’s Renault on Tuesday retooled the board structure of the world’s largest car-making alliance, putting themselves as equals after the ouster of forme...
NAGANO (Jiji Press) — Cumberland Japan Co. on Monday released a new trailer-home model to be offered for use as temporary housing in the event of disasters.
The producer and seller of trailer home...
Subscription-based businesses, which offer the use of multiple products and services for a set price over a fixed period of time, are on the rise. The kind of consumerism that places emphasis on expe...
DALLAS (Bloomberg) — As seats shrink and fees multiply, it’s hard to find value from an airline these days. Except when redeeming frequent-flyer points. The six largest U.S. carriers grew more ge...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Electric carmaker Tesla is reversing course on its decision to move most of its sales online, saying it will keep many of its showrooms open — but will need to hike prices ...
BERLIN (Reuters) — The U.S. Embassy in Berlin said Monday that use of untrusted vendors by allies in their 5G mobile networks could jeopardize future sharing of intelligence by the U.S. government.
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LONDON (Reuters) — The former CEO of Olympus, who blew the whistle on a $1.7 billion accounting scandal at the Japanese medical equipment maker in 2011, has won a London court battle over alleged wr...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — Top U.S. and Chinese officials held phone talks Tuesday to discuss the next steps in trade negotiations, Chinese state media said, as the White House said no date has been set ...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Sterling rallied on Tuesday on speculation that British Prime Minister Theresa May might be closer to securing approval for her Brexit deal after the European Commission agreed to ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks soared on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, as buying sentiment swelled following a Wall Street rebound and amid a rising prospect for a deal for Britain’s exit fro...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — U.S. investment fund King Street Capital Management LP said Tuesday that it will propose board director candidates for Toshiba Corp. at a general meeting of shareholders of the...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Uhuru, a Japanese startup backed by SoftBank that helps connect devices to cloud services, is considering listing in London as it looks to grow outside of Japan.
“The London mar...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — SBI Holdings Inc. President Yoshitaka Kitao aims to raise ¥100 billion for a business succession fund for small companies, to be set up shortly with regional financial institu...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Machine tool orders fell 29 percent in February from a year earlier, the biggest drop since October 2009, adding to signals that a global slowdown is hitting the world’s third-...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Business sentiment among large companies in January-March fell into negative territory for the first time in three quarters, a government survey showed Tuesday. The business se...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government plans to cut budget allocations to ministries and agencies that fail to meet the legally required employment rate for people with disabilities. Under the plan, ...
Eight years since the Great East Japan Earthquake that devastated the coastal and other areas in Tohoku, the region’s economy has steadily moved toward reconstruction. In areas hit by the disaster, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Sunday that the central bank does “not feel any hurry” to change the level of interest rates again as it watches how a slo...
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) — SoftBank Group Corp. has expanded its appetite for early-stage startups, with a venture capital unit set to launch its biggest fund for early investments as it opens new offi...
BERLIN (Reuters) — A plunge in car production drove an unexpected drop in German industrial output in January as the engine room of Europe’s largest economy, which narrowly avoided recession last ...
ISTANBUL (Bloomberg) — Turkey fell into its first recession in a decade, dealing a blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the country heads toward bellwether municipal elections this month. Gros...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China’s aviation regulator said Monday it had ordered Chinese airlines to suspend their Boeing 737 MAX aircraft operations following a deadly crash of one of the plane...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s factory-gate inflation in February stayed flat from a month earlier, while gains in consumer prices slipped to the lowest level in more than a year as muted price pres...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) — The management board of Deutsche Bank has agreed to hold talks with rival Commerzbank on the feasibility of a merger, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The ...
