MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexico’s economy shrank in the first quarter of 2019 from the previous three-month period, data showed on Friday, dealing a blow to the new government’s drive to convinc...

SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — A South Korean court on Saturday approved arrest warrants for two vice presidents of Samsung Electronics over an accounting scandal, but rejected one for the head of the conglomer...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Developments in the U.S.-China trade dispute are expected to affect the course of Tokyo stocks next week, market sources said. This week, the key 225-issue Nikkei average on t...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s Financial Services Agency on Friday issued a business improvement order to Seibu Shinkin Bank over its flawed loan-screening system. The small Tokyo lender was found...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government on Friday revised down its basic assessment of the Japanese economy for the first time in two months, seeing the negative effects of China’s economic decelerati...

TOKYO (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump visits Japan, he’ll be able to point to Tokyo’s streets to drive home a sore point in trade relations between the allies: the absence of made-in-US...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government plans to launch a public-private initiative to standardize plastic materials that can be degraded by marine microbes, with the aim of promoting such biodegradabl...

PARIS (Reuters) — The United States, the European Union and Japan are working to finalize proposals to reform global rules on industrial subsidies, designed to limit what they see as distort practi...

Disagreements by major economic powers over how to overhaul the workings of the World Trade Organization could paralyse the institution unless quick changes are agreed, Canada’s trade minister said...

U.S. new home sales pulled back in April from an 11-year high as prices jumped, according to government data released Thursday. The decline put a stop to three straight monthly increases but appeare...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Luckin Coffee Inc.’s initial public offering was met with great fanfare — and then it wasn’t. Shares of Xiamen, China-based Luckin Coffee soared as much as 53 percent ...

AFP-Jiji JPMorgan Chase cut ties with American pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma over its alleged involvement in the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic, a source close to the matter said Thursday. JPM...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — After an all-day meeting with global aviation regulators, the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration sounded more upbeat than ever about prospects for clearing the tr...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Crude steel production in April dropped 0.8 percent from a year earlier to 8.65 million tons, down for the eighth consecutive month, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said Th...

SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. said it removed 2.2 billion fake accounts in the first quarter, a record that shows how the company is battling an avalanche of bad actors trying to undermi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump rolled out another $16 billion in aid for farmers hurt by his trade policies, and financial markets shook Thursday on the growing realization that the U...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is proposing tariffs on goods from countries found to have undervalued currencies, in a move that would further escalate it...

ATLANTA (Bloomberg) — Increased trade tensions are a concern for the U.S. economy but Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan is undecided if that means the next interest rate move should be a hike or a ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Financial Services Agency will order Nomura Securities Co. and its parent, Nomura Holdings Inc., to improve businesses for alleged information leaks, informed sources said ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Overseas assets owned by Japanese public authorities, companies and individuals increased 0.5 percent from a year earlier to total ¥1,018 trillion at the end of 2018, Finance ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The nation’s core consumer price index for April rose 0.9 percent from a year earlier, up for the 28th consecutive month, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications s...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Fujifilm Corp. said Thursday it will release a new premium mirrorless digital camera that features an image sensor with the world’s highest resolution of 102 million pixels i...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Over the span of two years, a Chinese national in Oregon sent devices that looked like iPhones to Apple, saying they wouldn’t turn on and should be replaced under warranty. He ...

Ford Motor Co. said on Wednesday it was partnering with walking robots maker Agility Robotics as it designs a planned fleet of self-driving delivery vans that will drop packages at the doorsteps of p...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Financial Services Agency has released a draft report calling for financial products that focus on longevity risk, or when people’s living expenses run short due to a ris...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP-Jiji) — Amazon on Wednesday confirmed that shareholders rejected proposals to prohibit sales of facial recognition technology to governments and study how it might threaten priva...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — The United States is at least a month from enacting its proposed tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese imports as it studies the impact on American consumers, U.S. Treas...

FUKUSHIMA (Jiji Press) — Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. told the labor ministry Wednesday that it will not use foreign workers entering Japan under the country’s new visa program at i...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Health insurance coverage for Kymriah, an expensive new drug for intractable leukemia and lymphoma, started on Wednesday. Costing ¥33,493,407 per dose, the drug developed by ...

LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s expensive housing market has so far weathered the uncertainty swirling around the country’s planned departure from the European Union, but average prices are unlikel...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The OECD on Tuesday cut its forecast for the world economy, urging governments to resolve their trade disputes as the latest flare-up in the U.S.-China trade war threatens to cri...

BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s three biggest airlines have asked U.S. planemaker Boeing Co. to compensate them for losses caused by the grounding and delayed deliveries of 737 MAX jets, just as regu...

ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkey has reduced tariffs on some U.S. imports in response to a similar United States move to halve tariffs on Turkish steel imports, the official gazette showed Wednesday. Th...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — Beijing is ready to resume trade talks with Washington, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said, as a top U.S. business lobby in China said nearly hal...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The United States is considering cutting off the flow of vital U.S. technology to as many as five Chinese companies including Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., wide...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s core machinery orders in March rose 3.8 percent from the previous month after seasonal adjustment thanks mainly to large-scale orders from nonmanufacturers, the Cabin...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said it’s “profoundly disappointed” by U.S. President Donald Trump deeming imported cars and parts a national security threat...

The U.S. government has temporarily eased trade restrictions imposed last week on China’s Huawei, a move aimed at minimizing disruption for its customers but dismissed by its founder who said the t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. footwear companies, including Nike Inc. and Under Armour, on Monday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to remove footwear from the proposed tariffs list on goods imported...

NEW YORK/LONDON (Bloomberg) — Time and again since Japan emerged as a global economic force, its financial leaders have hatched plans to translate their influence into investment-banking clout. Time...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Kanetsugu Mike said Monday that core unit MUFG Bank will scrap about 80 more branches in Japan in a bid to cut costs further and i...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nissan Motor Co. faces a likely decrease in its influence over its French partner, Renault SA, due to its deteriorating performance. Nissan is working out a new business strat...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp. failed to sell all of its longer-tenor debt after returning to the market for the first time in two years, becoming the latest in a series of bond-offering st...

SEOUL (Bloomberg) — Are South Korean authorities drawing a line in the sand for the won? As the currency dropped around 2 percent this month toward 1,200 against the dollar, the Ministry of Financ...

URAYASU, Chiba (Jiji Press) — Tokyo DisneySea’s new themed area slated to open in fiscal 2022 has been named Fantasy Springs, the operator of the amusement park said Tuesday. Billed as “a magic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled against U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday in a financial records dispute with Congress and said lawmakers should get the documents they have subpoenaed. ...

OTTAWA (AFP-Jiji) — Ottawa plans to proceed “full steam ahead” on ratification of a free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, Canada’s foreign minister said Saturday, after the n...

NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — Boeing acknowledged Saturday it had to correct flaws in its 737 MAX flight simulator software used to train pilots, after two deadly crashes involving the aircraft that killed ...

CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — Demand for new farm equipment should be in full swing. American growers have outdated fleets of tractors, and they need to be replaced. Yet there’s a reluctance to buy, and D...

The preliminary figure for the number of passengers at Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka city in fiscal 2018 is expected to reach about 24.84 million, hitting a record high for the 5th consecutive year. T...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks are likely to show sluggish moves on the Tokyo Stock Exchange this week amid investors closely following developments in the U.S.-China trade dispute, market sources sai...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Friday that its chief executive officer, Osamu Masuko, will leave the post after the Japanese automaker’s general shareholders meeting on June 21...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declared that imported cars represented a threat to U.S. national security but announced a delay in imposing tariffs on imported vehicl...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Luckin Coffee Inc., a challenger to Starbucks Corp. in the race to dominate China’s growing coffee culture, climbed in its trading debut after raising $561 million in an ex...

WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on imported cars in a statement released by its U.S. arm Friday, saying the automaker does not pose...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry on Friday lifted import restrictions imposed on beef from the United States, Canada and Ireland as a measure against bovine spongiform en...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Combined group net profits at 11 regional banks and eight regional bank groups in Japan fell 4.0 percent from the previous year to ¥590.9 billion in fiscal 2018, which ended i...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. will lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico, boosting efforts to encourage lawmakers to ratify a new North American trade ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s trade negotiator said Friday Washington won’t be demanding any numerical restrictions on Japanese auto exports to the United States. Toshimitsu Motegi, the economy ministe...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration said new restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co. announced this week would take effect on Friday, with the parent company and 67 affiliates in 26 co...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co. will virtually mark down “bento” boxed meals and other food items with only a few hours of shelf life remaining, starti...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nissan Motor Co. unveiled a list of 11 candidates to its board on Friday, with seven of them from outside the company. The seven external candidates include Yasushi Kimura, con...

Reuters Pinterest Inc. on Thursday forecast 2019 revenue broadly in line with Wall Street targets, disappointing investors who had expected more from the freshly public, high flying stock, and sendi...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp. has unveiled another record-share buyback just months after completing a similar program, underscoring Chief Executive Officer Kenichiro Yoshida’s commitment to supp...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Former Lixil Group Corp. head Kinya Seto said Thursday he does not intend to start a proxy battle over the appointments of board directors toward the major Japanese housing eq...

AFP-Jiji Pakistan’s rupee dropped to an all-time low of 146.5 to the dollar Thursday, days after Islamabad announced it had reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a fresh bai...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — NTT Docomo Inc. said Thursday that it will introduce a new sales method allowing customers a reduction of up to one-third in payments for high-priced smartphone purchases. The...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Nestle SA has entered exclusive talks to sell its skincare business to a group led by EQT Partners for 10.2 billion Swiss francs ($10.1 billion) in what would be one of the bigg...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Competition has been intensifying again in the market of “third-segment” beer-like beverages. Last year, combined shipments of beer and “happoshu” low-malt quasi-beer ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. on Thursday said they struck a strategic partnership in which Sony would use Microsoft’s cloud for streaming games and media and the two wo...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Clearer language from the Bank of Japan last month on how long it plans to maintain its super-low interest rates has not boosted chances that it will ease policy further, economist...

HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is leading a $575 million investment in Deliveroo, handing the food delivery startup capital to expand its technology team and network across new markets. Th...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — EasyJet Plc said fares are set to fall in the second half after previously predicting a gain, with weakening European economies and concern about Brexit weighing on bookings ove...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said Friday that it is fairly possible that the central bank will keep interest rates at the current low levels beyond spring 2020, depending...

HANOI (Reuters) — Vietnam is seeking to export avocados to the United States, the Southeast Asian country said Thursday, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to shut the U.S.-Mexico border ...

NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — The U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday it has tentatively decided to allocate four U.S. airlines 12 additional slots per day at Tokyo International Airport at ...

HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — Hong Kong’s anti-corruption office filed bribery charges against Catherine Leung, a former managing director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Leung, 51, was charged with bribing th...

HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — The Beijing delivery man who arrived with Christine Lin’s new silver bracelet came dressed in an elegant black suit — complete with white gloves. He knocked on the door ...

BRUSSELS (Jiji Press) — The European Commission said Thursday that it has imposed a total of €1.07 billion ($1.2 billion) in fines on MUFG Bank, and four major British and U.S. banks for taking p...

NEW YORK (Reuters) —Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be tossed because a U....

AFP-Jiji Boeing said Thursday that it completed its software update on the 737 MAX after two deadly crashes resulted in a global grounding of the aircraft. The proposed fix, which addresses a proble...

LAGOS (Reuters) — MTN Nigeria, owned by South Africa’s MTN Group, listed in Lagos on Thursday in a 2 trillion naira ($6.54 billion) flotation turning the telecoms company into the exchange’s se...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — General Electric Co. tamped down enthusiasm about a quick recovery in its power-plant unit on Wednesday, and an analyst said the company was not “telling the whole story” a...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The producer price index for April rose 1.2 percent from a year before to 101.8 against 100 for the base year of 2015, up for the 28th straight month, the Bank of Japan said in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration’s second package of aid for U.S. farmers hit by the trade war with China is expected to total $15 billion to $20 billion and involve direct payment...

China sold the most U.S. Treasuries in almost 2½ years in March amid uncertainty about a trade deal between Beijing and Washington, data from the U.S. Treasury Department released on Wednesday showe...

TOKYO (Reuters) — The Japanese government is considering downgrading its assessment of the economy next week as the intensifying Sino-U.S. trade war takes a toll on exports and factory output, a go...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting chief of the Federal Aviation Administration defended his agency’s safety certification of the Boeing 737 Max jetliner, the plane involved in two deadly crashes, and ...

NUMAZU, Shizuoka (Jiji Press) — Regional lender Suruga Bank said Wednesday that the amount of its fraudulent loans extended for investment in shared houses and other real estate items has totaled s...

SAPPORO (Jiji Press) — Hokkaido Railway Co., or JR Hokkaido, has asked the transport ministry to approve a plan to raise the maximum speed of its Shinkansen bullet trains on a planned section to 32...

LONDON (Jiji Press) — Hitachi Ltd. on Tuesday unveiled to the media new Azuma bullet trains before they enter regular service between London and Leeds, northern England, Wednesday. The Azuma train...

NEW DELHI (Bloomberg) — Low-cost airlines, the pioneers of brief discomfort at bargain prices, have struggled to master long-haul flights. Now one of the world’s most successful budget carriers is...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The idea that China would dump its $1.1 trillion of Treasuries to retaliate against U.S. tariffs is often dismissed as improbable. It’s seen as a nuclear option that would i...

BEIJING (Reuters) — Growth in China’s industrial output slowed more than expected to 5.4 percent in April from a 4½-year high in March, reinforcing views Beijing will have to roll out more stimu...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — U.S. President Donald Trump called on the Federal Reserve to “match” what he said China would do to offset economic hardship being caused by tariffs as he sought to draf...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Sentiment among so-called economy watchers in the nation, or people working in industries sensitive to changes in economic trends, rose for the first time in two months in Apri...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A China-Taiwan consortium has again postponed, from mid-June, a decision on investment in Japan Display Inc., JDI said. The maker of small and midsize liquid crystal display p...

FUJAIRAH, UAE (AFP-Jiji) — Four ships, including two Saudi oil tankers, were damaged in mysterious “sabotage attacks” that have inflamed Gulf tensions amid a standoff between the United States ...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s largest retailer, said hackers may have gained access to the personal information of about half a million users of its Uniqlo and GU brand e-commerc...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major Japanese nonfinancial companies’ combined group net profits in the business year to March fell 2.2 percent from the previous year, down for the first time in three years...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major housing equipment maker Lixil Group Corp. announced on Monday eight candidates for its board of directors, to be submitted to a general meeting of its shareholders in Jun...

HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Asian markets extended a global sell-off Tuesday following hefty losses on Wall Street that came in response to China’s hike in tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. imports, ramp...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Monday that a unit it jointly owns which markets gas from Mozambique has signed a long-term deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Japan’...

PARIS (Bloomberg) — Renault SA shares fell on a report that antipollution devices on two of the French carmaker’s diesel models failed to work under a wide range of driving conditions. The inves...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Uber Technologies Inc.’s shares fell 12 percent Monday, more than doubling their losses since the ride-hailing giant’s poorly received market debut, and its chief executive ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration was planning to provide about $15 billion in aid to help U.S. farmers whose products may be targeted with tarif...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Bitcoin surged to more than $8,000 late Monday, its highest level since July last year, as the cryptocurrency’s rally gained further momentum. There is no real fundamental e...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury on Monday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.055 billion to a couple claiming that the company’s popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused the...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Cabinet Office said Monday a key index of the country’s economic indicators is “worsening,” showing this assessment for the first time in six years and two months and...

The market for digital signage is rapidly expanding. With the spread of high-speed internet and a reduction in installation costs, the electronic devices can be set up at various places consumers can ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) — Pakistan has reached an accord with the International Monetary Fund for a three-year, $6 billion bailout package aimed at shoring up fragile public finances and strengthening ...

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg) — Overseas investors can soon own more Chinese stocks — the trouble is they do not seem to want them. Foreigners are dumping mainland-listed shares at a record pace, just as...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue wants China to be a customer of American farm products, even after Washington hiked tariffs on more than $200 billion in Chinese goods, an...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mobile phone carrier KDDI Corp. will start offering new subscription plans in June, reducing communication fees by up to 40 percent from current levels, the company announced Mo...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks finished lower for the sixth straight trading session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, amid heightening concerns over a prolonged U.S.-China trade war. The 225-iss...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — On Thursday, as his company booked a $3.8 billion gain from its stake in Uber Technologies Inc., Masayoshi Son told SoftBank Group Corp. investors that their time had finally com...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry will boost support for companies trying to sell products abroad by opening more Japan Mall special sites on major foreign e-commerce we...