TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan Investment Corp. President Masaaki Tanaka said Monday he and eight other board members of the public-private investment fund will resign. The JIC executives were at odds ...

CANBERRA (Bloomberg) — Google and Facebook Inc. face a regulatory crackdown in Australia after the nation’s competition watchdog joined a chorus of international criticism over their use of data ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — General Motors is fighting to retain a valuable tax credit for electric vehicles as the nation’s largest automaker tries to deal with the political fallout triggered by its plan...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Brent crude oil rose on Monday after producer club OPEC and some non-affiliated suppliers last Friday agreed to a supply cut from January. Despite this, the outlook for next y...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Bank of Japan’s “tankan” quarterly survey for December, due out on Friday, is expected to show a further deterioration of Japanese business sentiment amid trade tensi...

SoftBank hired Facebook Inc. executive Kirthiga Reddy as a partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund, the first woman to join a group of just a dozen that oversees the world’s biggest pool of technol...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks took another plunge after a one-day rebound on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, dampened by a steep fall in U.S. equities late last week. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s economy shrank a revised 2.5 percent in July-September on an annualized basis, far weaker than a preliminary 1.2 percent decline, due chiefly to slumping corporate ca...

LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Theresa May can stay on if she loses a crucial vote on her Brexit deal in parliament on Tuesday, her Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Sunday. Aske...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) — Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker’s emissions test cheating almost three months before U.S. authorities made it pub...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Industries face the need to improve work conditions and pay to attract workers amid an intensifying international race for labor, after a bill to accept more foreign workers wa...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet on Saturday approved an economic partnership agreement with the European Union, which will create a free trade bloc accounting for 30 percent of world output. The Hou...

VIENNA (AP) — Oil prices spiked sharply higher Friday as major oil producers, including the OPEC cartel, agreed to cut global oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day to reduce oversupply. Foll...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prosecutors are set to rearrest former Nissan Motor Co. leader Carlos Ghosn on Monday, when his current detention expires, for additional charges over the alleged nondisclosure...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo stocks may show wild swings this week, with potentially market-moving factors scheduled both in and outside Japan, analysts and brokers said. This week, the 225-issue Nik...

WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday negotiations to defuse the high-stakes trade conflict with China are “going very well.” Trump met China’s leader Xi Jinping at ...

VIENNA (AP) — Oil prices spiked sharply higher Friday as major oil producers, including the OPEC cartel, agreed to cut global oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day to reduce oversupply. Fol...

PARIS (Reuters) — Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said France will tax digital giants at a national level from 2019 if European Union states cannot reach an agreement on a tax on digital...

SAO PAULO (AFP-Jiji) — A Brazilian federal court on Thursday suspended a proposed $4.75 billion tie-up between U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and the civilian business of Brazilian plane-maker Embraer ...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Household spending unexpectedly fell in October and real wages slipped for a third straight month, adding to concerns about the strength of the economy as global trade frictions cl...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has won an order from major British satellite communications service operator Inmarsat for a new H-3 launch vehicle, the first such order from ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Aeon Co. said Thursday that it will lower the prices of Australian beef products by up to about 20 percent, ahead of the effectuation of the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — For the second time this year, Macy’s Inc. is switching up its approach to China as it struggles to get its presence in the world’s most populous market right. Macy’s...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda on Thursday expressed caution over the course of overseas economies, citing possible negative impacts on the nation. “Uncertainty over fore...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivered a bullish assessment of the U.S. economy and the job market on the eve of the scheduled release of November employm...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. productivity grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the July-September quarter, slower than the previous quarter but still an improvement over the weak annual gains of the ...

OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Daikin Industries Ltd. plans to launch a new home-use air conditioner plant in India in 2021 to meet growing demand in the South Asian country, it was learned Thursday. The m...

TOKYO (AP) — Nissan, the automaker under scrutiny after its former Chairman Carlos Ghosn was arrested on suspicion of financial misconduct, is recalling 150,000 vehicles spanning 11 models in the n...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, supported by purchases after the previous day’s plunge. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 177.06 points, or 0.82 per...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Composite index of coincident economic indicators marked its steepest month-on-month increase in nearly 30 years in October, thanks to recoveries in production and shipment...

Fast Retailing Co. announced on its website that it would stop using mohair in the products of the company’s seven affiliated brands, including Uniqlo and Theory, by 2020. Mohair is a luxury fabri...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — OPEC ended talks without a deal on oil production cuts for the first time in nearly five years as Russia flexed its muscles by so far refusing to commit to the big output curb t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A stock market rally, which has since reversed, propelled U.S. household net worth to a record high of $109 trillion in the July-September quarter. The Federal Reserve said Thur...

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. plans to start production in China in the second half of next year, the city of Shanghai said, as the U.S. electric-car maker advances its push in the wo...

VIENNA (Reuters) — OPEC tentatively agreed an oil-output cut on Thursday but was waiting to hear from non-OPEC heavyweight Russia before deciding the exact volumes for a production reduction aimed a...

SYDNEY (Reuters) — The Australian Parliament’s lower house passed a bill on Thursday to force tech firms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook and Apple to give police access to encrypted da...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — A group of Google employees wrote to Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai demanding better conditions for the thousands of contractors that make up more than half of the int...

Toyota Motor Corp. executives still fret that U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed auto tariffs could come to pass and cut U.S. auto sales by about 2 million cars a year. Jim Lentz, chief execut...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Additional misconduct was found in final inspections of finished vehicles at Nissan Motor Co., informed sources said Thursday. The automaker is in talks with the transport min...

TOKYO (Reuters) — SoftBank Group Corp.’s mobile phone services were disrupted in some parts of Japan on Thursday, ahead of an initial public offering (IPO) of its domestic telecoms unit later this...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Finance Ministry has decided to cut import tariffs on whey, a basic ingredient of liquid baby formula, in April next year, sources told Jiji Press on Wednesday. The move c...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange is considering reorganizing the divisions among its stock markets, and will compile within the year at the earliest a proposal for reorganizing four markets — the TSE’s Fi...

BAIC Motor Corp.’s shares slumped 13.5 percent on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported that Germany’s Daimler AG is considering increasing its stake in its joint venture with the Chinese company. ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Oil prices fell on Wednesday, pulled down by a U.S. supply glut and a drop in stock markets as China’s government warned of increasing economic headwinds and as Japan was ex...

WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Countries that go it alone and fail to adapt to new economic realities could face a “dystopian” future where an angry majority is left behind, IMF chief Christine Lagard...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Tuesday that wholly owned subsidiary Tokan Corp. continued shipping industry-use rubber parts short of promised standards even after it recognize...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese government bond yields hit four-month lows on Wednesday after an inversion in the U.S. yield curve stoked worries about a recession in the United States, though they claw...

HANOI (Reuters) — Foxconn, the world’s biggest electronics contract manufacturer and a key Apple Inc. supplier, is considering setting up a factory in Vietnam to mitigate any impact of an ongoing...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Asian stocks slid across the board on Wednesday, dragged down by Wall Street’s tumble as sharp declines in long-term U.S. Treasury yields and resurgent trade concerns stoked inv...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — France and Germany sought on Monday to salvage a proposed EU tax on big digital firms by narrowing the focus to cover only companies’ online advertising revenue, a European s...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Toshiba Client Solutions Co., a former Toshiba Corp. personal computer unit now owned by Sharp Corp., aims for an initial public stock offering during fiscal 2021, which ends M...

WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Imagine an airport where thousands of planes, empty of fuel, are left abandoned on the tarmac. That is what has been happening for decades with satellites that circle the Ear...

OSLO (AFP-Jiji) — Norwegian cruise operator Hurtigruten plans to use dead fish to power some of its ships, it said on Nov. 26, as it seeks to reduce its pollution and climate change impact. Leftove...

ASUNCION (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez agreed on Sunday to conclude a bilateral investment accord at an early date. Abe, the first Japanese ...

Chinese social media giant Weibo is making a push into foreign markets and is considering launching new products in different languages, a senior executive told AFP, brushing off concerns over censor...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — New automobile sales in the nation in November grew 8.6 percent from a year before to 441,943 units, thanks partly to the popularity of new models, industry data showed Monday....

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — U.S. financial markets will close Wednesday for a national day of mourning to honor former President George H.W. Bush. The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Inc.’s U.S. equ...

NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — A tough stance U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to adopt on trade with Japan in a bid to win reelection in 2020 may affect the course of the country’s tax system re...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Leading convenience store operator Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has asked franchise outlets in Tokyo to remove ashtrays installed outside of the stores, it was learned Sunday. Seve...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — EU finance ministers will agree on Monday to give the eurozone bailout fund new responsibilities, but they will delay decisions on the eurozone budget and a deposit guarantee sc...

SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Qualcomm Inc. ruled out any chance of a return to its abandoned bid for NXP Semiconductors NV after U.S. and Chinese political leaders appeared to open the way for possi...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks continued their bull run for the seventh consecutive session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday, after the United States and China struck a temporary truce in their trad...

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) — Shanghai shares saw their biggest daily gain in a month and the yuan firmed on Monday after Chinese and U.S. leaders agreed to a temporary truce in a bitter trade war,...

Japan is considering participating in a U.S. program to develop a fast reactor, it has been learned. Scheduled to begin operations as early as around 2026, the U.S. facility would be the world’s mos...

DUBAI (AP) — The tiny, energy-rich Arab nation of Qatar announced on Monday it would withdraw from OPEC, mixing its aspirations to increase production outside of the cartel’s constraints with the...

TOKYO (Reuters) — The nation’s corporate capital expenditure rose for an eighth consecutive quarter in July-September but the pace of gains slowed sharply, raising doubts about the strength of bus...

BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s factory activity grew slightly in November, a private survey showed, though new export orders extended their decline in a further blow to the sector already hurt by the...

Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to extend into 2019 their deal to manage the oil market, known as OPEC+, although Moscow and Riyadh have yet to confirm any fresh output cuts. Russian President Vladim...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) — Deutsche Bank is not at risk of a takeover, its chief executive told a German weekly paper after its shares fell to a record low on Friday in the wake of a two-day raid relate...

LONDON (Reuters) — British manufacturers are heading into their slowest year of growth since 2015 as Brexit uncertainty hits foreign demand and businesses brace for potential shortages of raw mater...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tour operators and medical and dental offices in the Mexican border city of Tijuana are reporting a slowdown in business since a caravan of Central American migrants arrived. Tou...

MONTEVIDEO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez confirmed Sunday that the two countries will open up their beef markets to each other. In a meeting in th...

NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — Three years after shutting down its iconic Big Apple venue, toy store FAO Schwarz has been reborn, offering a nostalgic holiday-time fix to native New Yorkers and tourists ali...

DETROIT (AP) — For generations, the career path for smart kids around Detroit was to get an engineering or business degree and get hired by an automaker or parts supplier. If you worked hard and di...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — It’s not just your credit card number that hackers want anymore. It’s your points. Marriott International Inc.’s disclosure on Friday that it’s investigating how hack...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — China’s Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said on Saturday the United States had revoked a plan to raise tariffs on certain Chinese goods to 25 percent on Jan. 1, follo...

NAGOYA (Jiji Press) — Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday that it will acquire all shares owned by Groupe PSA in their Czech joint venture to make it a fully owned subsidiary in January 2021, in a bid t...

NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — It’s the talk of the town, the publishing phenomenon of the fall and now Michelle Obama’s memoir has sold more than 2 million copies in North America in two weeks. Pengu...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook said its No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, asked staff to investigate whether billionaire philanthropist George Soros, in calling the company a “menace,” had financial ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo stocks may show wild swings this week following a weekend meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, market watchers said. The 225-is...

SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. announced their second partnership in November: The iPhone maker’s music-streaming service is coming to Amazon’s Echo devices in Decem...

BERLIN (Reuters) — Germany’s antitrust authority has launched an investigation into whether U.S. ecommerce giant Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in its relations with third-party retail...

AMSTERDAM/TOKYO (Reuters) — Renault and Nissan vowed to stick by their industrial alliance on Thursday but failed to name an interim boss to stand in for Chairman Carlos Ghosn, whose arrest has thr...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration, which has had sometimes strained relations with high-technology companies, will meet with top tech executives next week to discuss innovation and fu...

BUENOS AIRES (Jiji Press) — Group of 20 finance ministers at a meeting in Buenos Aires on Thursday voiced anxieties over downside risks to the global economy, such as a possible slowdown in the econ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Almost all Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting agreed another interest rate increase was “likely to be warranted fairly soon,” but also opened debate on when t...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s stockbrokers are rubbing their hands ahead of SoftBank’s record-breaking $21 billion share sale, banking on the telco’s brand power and unprecedented marketing campa...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s industrial production in October increased 2.9 percent from the previous month, marking the steepest rise since January 2015, a government report showed Friday. The s...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is considering allowing member firms to raise employee pay scales in next year’s “shunto” spring labor-management wage talks ...

MADRID (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping issued an impassioned defense Wednesday of free markets’ ability to combat economic uncertainty as he sought allies amid his nation’s worsening trade ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said Thursday that the Chinese government has lifted its ban on imports of rice grown in Niigata Prefecture. China prohibited ...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co. is reworking its U.S. plants to lower costs and boost output of big sport utility vehicles. And unlike rival General Motors Co., the moves won’t cut...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Bank of Japan said Wednesday that its total assets as of end-September had grown to a record ¥545 trillion, nearly matching Japan’s nominal gross domestic product of ¥5...

COPENHAGEN (AFP-Jiji) — Danish prosecutors said Wednesday they had brought “preliminary charges” against Danske Bank, the Scandinavian country’s biggest lender, which has been embroiled in a ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Combined domestic automobile production by eight major Japanese manufacturers in October rose 6.7 percent from a year earlier to 840,835 units, data from the companies showed T...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Japan’s real gross domestic product “will decline by over 25 percent in 40 years” due to a falling population unless structural reforms are implemented in a credible...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — China is going to this week’s G20 summit hoping for a deal to ease a damaging trade war with the United States, Beijing’s ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday while w...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Takashi Tsukioka, president of the Petroleum Association of Japan, indicated on Tuesday that domestic oil wholesalers are expected to resume crude oil imports from Iran as earl...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan Exchange Group Inc., or JPX, said Tuesday it will punish its group chief executive officer for purchasing listed financial products in violation of its internal rules. T...

International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty joined a growing chorus of tech executives lambasting web platforms, like Google and Facebook Inc., over their collection o...

A government panel of experts considering how to regulate major digital platform operators held a hearing on Wednesday in which U.S. digital giants gave their opinions on the panel’s interim report...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major bank group Resona Holdings Inc. plans to sell regional banks a cashless settlement platform for retail and restaurant businesses, President Kazuhiro Higashi has said. Wi...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government and the ruling camp are considering introducing a mileage-based automobile taxation in a future overhaul of Japan’s auto taxes, informed sources have said. Th...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — NHK’s board approved the public broadcaster’s plan on Tuesday to cut its television viewing fees by 4.5 percent by fiscal 2020. The fee cut plan was designed to meet a g...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Sears Holdings Corp. won court approval on Tuesday for $350 million in critical bankruptcy financing that will keep the 125-year-old retailer operating through th...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Services producer prices in October rose 1.3 percent from a year before, up for the 64th straight month, thanks chiefly to a rise in advertising fees, the Bank of Japan said in ...

BEIJING (Reuters) — Profit growth at China’s industrial firms cooled for a sixth straight month in October as factory prices and the pace of sales increases softened amid mounting uncertainties st...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government at a meeting Monday worked out a draft of measures to alleviate the impact of a planned October 2019 consumption tax hike. The measures, adopted at the joint mee...

OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Kansai International Airport saw aircraft on international routes land at and take off from the airport in Osaka Prefecture 12,510 times in October to rewrite a monthly record,...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government plans to consider obliging companies to allow employees to work until they turn 70 years old, it was learned on Monday. Currently in Japan, companies ar...

OSAKA (Jiji Press) — About 28 million people are seen visiting the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, including 3 million visitors from abroad, a private think tank said Monday. Of the total foreign v...

LONDON (Reuters) — Rio Tinto will sell its 69 percent stake in a Namibian uranium mine to China National Uranium Corp. (CNUC) for up to $106.5 million, it said on Monday, as China seeks to bolster ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he expected to move ahead with raising tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports to 25 percent from the current 10 percent and repeate...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nissan Motor Co. is planning to hold a board meeting on Dec. 17 to select its new chairman to succeed disgraced Carlos Ghosn, informed sources said Tuesday. The new chairman ...