TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A government report expressed a sense of caution on Tuesday over the prolonged U.S.-China trade war and a slowdown in the Chinese economy becoming risks to the Japanese economy....

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Business leaders called on the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to further promote its growth strategy after his ruling camp won a majority of seats contes...

TOKYO (Reuters) — JXTG Holdings, Japan’s biggest oil refiner, said Tuesday it plans to close a 115,000 barrel per day Osaka refinery that it owns with PetroChina next year, amid falling demand for...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) — The biggest shareholders in China’s new Nasdaq-style STAR Market lost a combined $1 billion in the second day of trade on Tuesday, a day after the board’s roaring debut crea...

SYDNEY (Bloomberg) — Bank executives in Australia may have to wait as long as seven years to receive their bonuses and face a greater emphasis on improving culture and governance, under regulatory p...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Equifax Inc. agreed to pay up to $700 million to resolve U.S. federal and state investigations into the 2017 hack that compromised some of the most sensitive information of...

SEOUL (Bloomberg) — South Korea’s exports, a bellwether for global trade, appear set for an eighth straight monthly decline as trade disputes take a toll on global demand. Exports during the firs...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. is already getting a headache from its $11 billion Australian foray. Japan’s biggest brewer is buying the Australian assets of Anheuser-Busch InBev ...

SEOUL (Bloomberg) — Public backlash in South Korea against Japanese products has dented some sales of beer and tour packages, and analysts say the boycott could spread to luxury cars and retailers a...

BEIJING (Reuters) — China said on Monday it will impose anti-dumping duties on some stainless steel products imported from the European Union, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia. Anti-dumping tariffs...

DETROIT (AP) — There’s a new target in the clash over immigration: hotels. Advocacy groups and unions are pressuring Marriott, MGM and others not to house migrants who have been arrested by Immi...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The average household budget for leisure and other purposes in this year’s summer holidays fell by ¥15,743 from a year before to ¥68,071, the lowest level since the survey ...

NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda on Friday emphasized the Japanese central bank’s independence. There is no risk of the Japanese central bank’s independence of being ...

BEIJING (Bloomberg) — A Chinese official pushed back against concerns that the nation’s plan to grade individuals on their behavior would violate its citizens’ legal rights and limit access to b...

BEIJING (Bloomberg) — SAIC Motor Corp. expects annual sales to fall for the first time in at least 14 years as China’s biggest automaker battles through a slump in demand roiling the world’s lar...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo stocks are expected to be swayed by earnings announcements by major export-oriented Japanese companies this week. Last week, the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei average lost ...

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg) — Surging oil and gas prices, skyrocketing insurance costs and attacks on energy and banking infrastructure are likely to be some of the initial impacts if the current Iranian ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plans to decide at a board meeting late this month to decommission all four reactors at its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, info...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Japan’s key inflation gauge fell again in June, adding to pressure on the Bank of Japan to join its global peers in increasing monetary stimulus. Consumer prices excluding fr...

Investors are sanguine about Singapore’s equity market even as the nation faces the risk of a technical recession, as a positive outlook for dividends and earnings overshadows threats from the U.S....

LONDON (Bloomberg) — ITV Plc and the British Broadcasting Corp. reached an agreement on a U.K. streaming venture, as they seek to respond to the incursion from digital rivals including Netflix Inc. ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — Volvo plans to cut fixed costs by 2 billion Swedish crowns ($214 million), it said on Thursday, becoming the latest carmaker to warn that pricing pressure and tariffs arising ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) — BMW said Oliver Zipse will become chief executive on Aug. 16, picking the 55-year-old manufacturing expert to help the German automaker make the shift to electric and self-dri...

BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — Qualcomm Inc. was fined €242 million ($272 million) by European Union antitrust regulators for deliberately pricing some chips so low they could eliminate a smaller rival. ...

CHANTILLY, France (Jiji Press) — Top finance and monetary officials of the Group of Seven major industrial countries on Thursday called for strict regulations on cryptocurrencies, such as Libra pla...

SINGAPORE (Jiji Press) — The Japan National Tourism Organization and Singapore Airlines, or SIA, have signed a memorandum of cooperation for the promotion of tourism to Japan. Under the agreement ...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has room to invest $26 billion in domestic stocks to keep holdings near its portfolio target, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Lotus Cars is preparing for an expansion under Asian owner Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. that could see the iconic British automaker open a second U.K. factory and target new ...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Expectations have risen sharply that the Bank of Japan’s next policy move will be to ease further, a Reuters poll of economists found, as the U.S. Federal Reserve looks set to c...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s Akebono Brake Industry Co. Ltd. said on Thursday it will receive about $185 million from a corporate turnaround fund to help restructure its money-losing business, sendi...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. shares slipped after executives were tight-lipped about the company’s $34 billion Red Hat acquisition and how it will help growth in c...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The estimated number of visitors to Japan in January-June grew 4.6 percent from a year before to a record high of 16,633,600, topping the 16-million threshold for the first tim...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Democratic and Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday that Facebook Inc.’s track record of what they described as untrustworthiness should stand in the way of it launchin...

PARIS (Reuters) — U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated a pledge to “act as appropriate” to keep the U.S. economy humming in a speech on Tuesday that validated expectations that a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States and Japan are working on a quid pro quo deal involving agriculture and autos that could be agreed to by U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. has announced an agreement to buy Indian digital data and analytics company Ugam Solutions Pvt. Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd., the Dentsu group’s g...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Japan increased its holdings of U.S. Treasuries to its highest level in nearly two years in May, while China trimmed its ownership of U.S. bonds to a two-year low, data from the...

OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores Inc. said Tuesday that it has been certified by China’s Tencent Holdings as a flagship department store operator for its WeChat Pay smartphon...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Fair Trade Commission has drafted guidelines stating that it can handle cases of information giants obtaining personal data without consent as violations of the country’s...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Arm Holdings, the British chip technology firm whose designs underlie mobile phone chips, is changing its licensing model to pursue a bigger customer base as more devices b...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Trading house Sumitomo Corp. and Japan Transport Engineering Co. have won an order from the Philippines’ Department of Transportation to supply 104 commuter train cars. The ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Engineering company JGC Corp. said Wednesday that it has won in Oman its first contract for the basic design of a liquefied natural gas plant for fuel supply to ships. JGC aim...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Yahoo Japan Corp. said Wednesday it opposes the reappointment of Shoichiro Iwata, president and chief executive officer of consolidated subsidiary and stationery seller Askul C...

CHICAGO (Reuters) — With the first U.S. interest rate reduction in a decade expected later this month, two Federal Reserve policymakers sketched out arguments Tuesday on how deep the cut should be, ...

GENEVA (Reuters) — The United States did not fully comply with a World Trade Organization ruling and could face Chinese sanctions if it does not remove certain tariffs that break WTO rules, the WTO...

Reuters United Airlines Holdings Inc. on Tuesday reported a bigger-than-expected increase in second-quarter profit, driven by strong air travel demand and the ability to charge more for seats after t...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to pause the enforcement of a sweeping antitrust ruling against mobile chip supplier Qualcomm Inc. on Tuesday, cit...

SEOUL (AP) — Colonial-era Korean laborers are seeking a court’s approval for the sales of local assets of their former Japanese employer after it refused to comply with a court order to compensat...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth sank to its lowest level in at least 26 years in the quarter ending in June, adding to pressure on Chinese leaders as they fight a tariff war with Washington...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday seized on slowing economic growth in China as evidence that U.S. tariffs were having “a major effect” and warned that Washington cou...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mizuho Financial Group Inc. put its new banking system into full operation Tuesday, marking the completion of its system integration efforts from 17 years ago. The group, crea...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Then Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa was aghast at the country’s severe economic contraction following the September 2008 collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brother...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A government report released Tuesday stressed the urgent need to create a new international order in trade to tackle a situation where concerns are growing over protectionism, ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan and seven other Pacific economies on Tuesday started discussions in Tokyo on saury fishing regulations in the northern Pacific. During the annual meeting of the North Pa...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Vice minister-level officials of Japan and the United States agreed Friday to make efforts to hold trade negotiations, chiefly on agricultural products and automobiles, in ...

ROME (Bloomberg) — Italy’s government is nearing a rescue package for bankrupt Alitalia that could see U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines Inc. boost its stake in a new company from an initial minority h...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Working-level officials from Japan and South Korea failed to narrow gaps in the two countries’ first talks on Friday on Tokyo’s tightened controls on exports of semiconduct...

DALLAS (Bloomberg) — United Airlines Holdings Inc. is removing the Boeing Co. 737 Max from its schedule through Nov. 2, with flight cancellations growing each month the troubled jet remains out of s...

WILMINGTON, Del. (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into whether Johnson & Johnson lied to the public about the possible cancer risks of its talcum powder...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan and South Korea traded further acrimony on Saturday, with Tokyo accusing Seoul of mischaracterizing talks the day before that did not mend a dispute that could threaten glob...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan Post Co. has decided to suspend its promotions for all Japan Post Insurance Co. products until the end of August, following a series of cases of inappropriate insurance s...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Cryptocurrency exchange BITPoint Japan Co. has lost about ¥3.5 billion, including ¥2.5 billion in customer assets, in a hack, its parent, Remixpoint Inc., said Friday. BITP...

HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — An unexpected contraction in Singapore’s economy in the second quarter sent a warning shot to the world economy as simmering trade tensions wilt business confidence and act...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday night warned Facebook Inc. over its plan to create a digital currency, the Libra, a move that poses a new obstacle to the company’...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan plans to propose introducing an overall cap on saury catches in the high seas by all eight member economies of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission, officials said. Th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit increased by $140 billion during the first nine months of this budget year to $747.1 billion as government revenues and spending both hit records. The Trea...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s much-panned new credit card with Apple Inc. may in fact help both companies, according to Morgan Stanley. The card should be out soon, analysts l...

HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — The world’s largest supplier of consumer goods says China’s factories are getting “urgent and desperate” as worried U.S. retailers accelerate a move out of the count...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co. introduced a cheaper version of its portable Switch gaming console, as the Japanese company seeks to expand the potential market for games. The Switch Lite will re...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Shares of Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. were set to gain by their daily limit, with bids outweighing offers to sell by about 5-to-1, after the gamemaker was chosen for inclusion in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that Facebook’s plan to build a digital currency called Libra “cannot go forward” until serious concerns ar...

SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s foreign minister told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Japan’s export curbs against Seoul are “undesirable,” the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, a...

SEOUL (Jiji Press) — South Korean authorities detected a total of 156 cases of illegal exports of strategic goods that can be used for making weapons of mass destruction, during the period from 201...

SEOUL (Jiji Press) — The South Korean government criticized Japan’s tightened controls on semiconductor materials exports to South Korea, at a World Trade Organization meeting in Geneva on Tuesda...

International Business Machines Corp. said Tuesday it has closed its $34 billion acquisition of software company Red Hat Inc., as it looks to ramp up its cloud computing business. Underscoring the d...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Asahi Breweries Ltd. said Tuesday it has developed a beer mug made from plant-derived materials jointly with Panasonic Corp., aiming to reduce waste from plastic mugs. Asahi, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. and Chinese trade officials held a “constructive” phone conversation Tuesday, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said, marking a new round of talks after the w...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Used vehicle sales in Japan in January-June fell 0.3 percent from a year earlier to 1.98 million units, hitting the fourth-lowest level on a first-half basis, the Japan Automob...

MEXICO CITY (Bloomberg) — Arturo Herrera was nominated as Mexico’s finance minister after Carlos Urzua abruptly quit over policy differences in the first major cabinet resignation for President An...

BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s producer prices unexpectedly showed no growth in June from a year earlier, raising concerns a slowdown in manufacturing activity will further drag on economic growth. ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Rakuten Mobile Inc. said Tuesday that it will acquire online game firm DMM.com’s low-cost smartphone and Internet service business on Sept. 1 for about ¥2.3 billion. The un...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Chevron Phillips Chemical and Qatar Petroleum signed an agreement Tuesday to develop an $8 billion petrochemical plant along the U.S. Gulf Coast, the second pact between the ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The nation’s producer price index for June fell 0.1 percent from a year before, marking the first decline in 30 months, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday. The index stood at ...

BERLIN (Reuters) — France is still pushing for a European consensus around a candidate to run the International Monetary Fund, the finance ministry said Tuesday, quashing reports of a Franco-German ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. job openings fell in May, pulled down by declines in the construction and transportation industries, potentially flagging a slowdown in employment growth in the months a...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Daido Life Insurance Co. will launch this week a new key person insurance product that complies with new National Tax Agency rules aimed at cracking down on so-called tax-savin...

Concerns are growing over a possible surge in marine transport costs after a tanker operated by a Japanese shipping company was attacked in waters off Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in June. Higher i...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — MUFG Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. said Friday they will make their automated teller machines outside their branches available to each other’s customers from Sept. 22...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks are expected to move this week in response to events chiefly related to U.S. monetary policy, according to market sources. Last week, the 225-issue Nikkei average jumpe...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Even as record highs last week in the major U.S. stock indexes telegraph confidence on Wall Street, caution abounds in other U.S. markets, where falling bond yields and flailin...

ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkey on Saturday fired its central bank governor and replaced him with the bank’s deputy governor, a presidential decree published on the official gazette showed. Murat Cet...

Cruise, a U.S. self-driving vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors Co., told Reuters on Friday that a U.S. national security panel approved a $2.25 billion investment in the firm by Japan’...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Christmas is nearly half a year away, but British retailers are already fretting about the damage a no-deal Brexit on Oct. 31 would do to the year’s busiest shopping season. ...

Kenmin Foods Co. has said it will enter the U.S. market in September with a gluten-free rice vermicelli. Kenmin is known for its Yaki Be-fun rice vermicelli. It decided to make a full-fledged entry ...

The government on Thursday invoked a measure to tighten export controls against South Korea on three items, including hydrogen fluoride needed to produce semiconductors and other devices. Under the ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun OSAKA — Startupbootcamp Scale Osaka has been launched to select promising start-ups from around the world and help them develop. The initiative, in cooperation with major Brit...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Tokyo stock market is expected to shift its focus to economic data this week, with fears of an economic slowdown stemming from U.S.-China trade friction driving speculation...

CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government has subpoenaed records from a Boeing Co. plant in South Carolina as well as employees who work there, signaling that its investigation of the U.S. planemak...

PORTLAND (Bloomberg) — Crypto may not be as hot as you think. Despite Bitcoin tripling in price this quarter, consumers aren’t any more interested in downloading cryptocurrency applications on t...

The leaders’ declaration for this week’s Group of 20 summit will call for creating a framework for drawing up international rules on the digital economy to be called the “Osaka track,” accord...

PARIS/SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) — France’s Carrefour on Sunday became the latest Western retailer to announce a retreat from the Chinese market as fierce competition from domestic rivals and a ...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — U.S. President Donald Trump denied that he’d threatened to demote Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell but said he’d “be able to do that if I wanted.” The preside...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A Bank of Japan tankan survey report due out July 1 is likely to show a second straight quarterly fall in manufacturing sentiment, think tanks say. The headline diffusion inde...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Nomura Holdings Inc.’s besieged chief executive won a shareholder vote on Monday, surviving a call for his ouster from the board following an information leak. CEO Koji Nagai ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Sales at supermarkets in Japan in May fell 0.7 percent from a year before on a same-store basis, down for the second straight month, industry data showed Monday. The drop came...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — NEC Corp. shareholders Monday approved a proposal to amend the company’s articles of incorporation to promote healthcare business using artificial intelligence technology. T...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks turned modestly higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, while investors were holding active trading in check due to a dearth of major incentives. The TOPIX index ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co. plans to use environmentally friendly biomass plastic packaging for all onigiri rice balls sold at its outlets, company off...

Renault SA has shown its intention to approve a new administration system that Nissan Motor Co. plans to propose at its shareholders meeting slated for Tuesday, it has been learned. Nissan’s large...

Nissan Motor Co. is considering assigning two committee posts to its largest shareholder, Renault SA, under the new administration that will be organized after a shareholders meeting later this month....

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to cap the fee for canceling a two-year cell phone contract at ¥1,000, sources close to the ministry said. This would represent a major reductio...

Restaurants and other eateries are taking different approaches ahead of a new system that will impose a lower consumption tax rate on food and beverages that are taken out, as opposed to those eaten a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. job growth slowed sharply in May and wages rose less than expected, raising fears that a loss of momentum in economic activity could be spreading to the labor market, wh...

BRASILIA (Reuters) — Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao on Friday told journalists that the government will not exclude Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co. from operating a fifth-...

BRASILIA (Reuters) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday said his government would consider a monetary union with Argentina, after his country’s central bank denied any such plans are b...

LONDON/SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Bloomberg) — International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde shone a light on the darker side of fintech developments at the gathering of finance and central ...

Trade and digital economy ministers of the Group of 20 major economies on Saturday began a two-day meeting in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. Amid the intensifying frictions between the United States...

A growing number of Japanese companies are relocating their production bases from China to other countries over fears of reduced price competitiveness caused by the expected hike in U.S. tariffs on Ch...

The government has stepped up its efforts to regulate cryptocurrencies in order to tighten control of virtual currency exchange service operators and transactions of such currencies. Bills to revise...

Nippon Yusen K.K. plans a major renovation of the 50,142-ton Asuka II cruise ship in 2020. As more foreign cruise lines are entering the Japanese market, the shipping firm is hoping to raise the comp...