20 new News results for Japan

News 20 new results for japan
Japan to Buy ESM Bonds Using Forex Reserves to Help Weaken Yen Bloomberg The move may help Prime Minister Shinzo Abe temper criticism of Japan's currency policies from trading partners such as the U.S. The yen has fallen around 8 percent against the dollar since mid-November on Abe's pledges to reverse more than a decade of ... See all stories on this topic »
Japan needs women power to galvanize economy: party Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan must put more women in key posts to boost its economy and to prove its ruling party has changed its hidebound ways, the party's top spokeswoman said on Tuesday, just days after two female party executives clashed over quotas for ... See all stories on this topic »
Japan Autos Still Face China Road Bumps Wall Street Journal Any sales growth this year would be an improvement over 2012, when a territorial dispute between China and Japan led to protests in China, with angry mobs smashing Japanese shops and cars. Toyota's China sales fell 4.9% below their 2011 level and ... See all stories on this topic »
Japan Is Weighing Raising Military Spending New York Times TOKYO — Japan's new conservative government announced a review of national military strategy on Monday that analysts said was aimed at offsetting China's growing military power and that may increase defense spending for the first time in a decade. See all stories on this topic » New York Times
Gold Lures Japan's Pension Funds, Govt Targets Inflation Businessweek Japanese pension funds, the world's second-largest pool of retirement assets after the U.S., will more than double their gold holdings in the next two years as the government seeks to target inflation to bolster economic growth, according to an adviser ... See all stories on this topic »
Asia-Pacific Chinese vessel intrusion angers Japan Aljazeera.com Akitaka Saiki, Japan's deputy foreign minister, summoned Cheng Yonghua, the Chinese diplomat to the foreign ministry after the four Chinese government ships remained in the waters off the islands for about 13 hours on Monday night and Tuesday morning, ... See all stories on this topic » Aljazeera.com
Euro Rises After Japan Finance Minister's Comment On European Rescue Bonds Wall Street Journal The euro rose against the dollar Tuesday in Asia after Japan's finance minister said Tokyo will buy European rescue bonds, helping sentiment toward the debt-stricken region as well as overall risk appetite. Finance Minister Taro Aso said his government ... See all stories on this topic »
UPDATE 1-Fitch: Japan's risks rise along with its debt levels Reuters TOKYO Jan 8 (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings will not change its sovereign rating on Japan based on promises made by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ahead of its election victory last month, a Fitch official said on Tuesday. Andrew Colquhoun, head of ... See all stories on this topic »
Japan cabinet plays down Fed-style job mandate for BOJ Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Key Japanese policymakers played down the prospect of making the Bank of Japan responsible for stable employment like the U.S. Federal Reserve, but said a 2 percent inflation target will be at the heart of a new policy accord with the ... See all stories on this topic »
Japan, Mongolia Sign Emissions-Reduction Pact Wall Street Journal The pact is the first such agreement outside the U.N. framework, the Japanese government said. Japan seeks to expand markets for green technologies by signing bilateral carbon-offset pacts, while Mongolia is seeking to access those technologies. See all stories on this topic » Japan: World's Most Expensive Fish Sold for $1.8 Million TIME On Saturday morning around 5 a.m., a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna was sold at Tokyo's Tsukiji market for an all-time high of 155.4 million yen, or 1.8 million dollars, at the annual new year auction, Japan's national broadcaster NHK reported. That equals ... See all stories on this topic » TIME Japan Auto Sales Slip 3.4% Wall Street Journal TOKYO—December sales of new cars, trucks and buses in Japan were off 3.4% from a year earlier, the fourth consecutive down month, as the end of the government's buying incentives reduced demand for fuel-efficient cars. Sales totaled 214,429 vehicles ... See all stories on this topic » Japan's Government Pushes New Business Role in Myanmar Wall Street Journal THILAWA SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE, Myanmar—Taro Aso, a week after becoming Japan's new finance minister, put aside pressing domestic issues for a trip to Myanmar to cement Tokyo's role in the largely untapped market, part of an effort to diversify from ... See all stories on this topic » Japan stimulus plans include $4.9 billion business support: draft Chicago Tribune TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new government will set up schemes worth nearly $5 billion to boost businesses, including helping them buy foreign companies, according to a draft economic stimulus package seen by Reuters on Monday that could be approved ... See all stories on this topic » Japan PM: Will pursue bold monetary policy, big fiscal spending Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated on Monday his call for bold monetary easing by the central bank, big fiscal spending and an economic growth strategy as steps towards conquering deflation. "Above all, the urgent task is ... See all stories on this topic » Japan's major automakers see sales in China fall in 2012 amid territorial row Washington Post TOKYO — Japan's three biggest automakers — Toyota, Nissan and Honda — say their vehicle sales in China fell last year amid a territorial dispute that prompted Chinese consumers to boycott Japanese products. Toyota Motor Corp. said its sales in China ... See all stories on this topic » Cerberus to Sell Stake in Japan's Aozora Bank Wall Street Journal (blog) U.S. private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP is in the news again, as it prepares to sell its long-held stake in Japan's Aozora Bank Ltd. in the open market, the bank announced Monday. Aozora shares closed down 10% on the news of the sale, ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog) In Asia, Ill Will Runs Deep New York Times THERE are few economies and societies on earth more complementary than China's and Japan's. The Chinese are relatively young, poor and restless and fiercely committed to economic growth. The Japanese are relatively old and sated, but technologically ... See all stories on this topic » Japan's Copper-Alloy Output May Rise 4% in 2013 on Weaker Yen Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed in a New Year message to focus his newly appointed Cabinet's efforts on reviving the country's economy, which has shrunk almost 10 percent over the past half-decade. The Japanese currency in 2012 had its ... See all stories on this topic » Japan Lobbies Sees Dollar in Y75-Y90 Range Wall Street Journal The head of Keidanren, or the Japan Business Federation, Hiromasa Yonekura, said at a joint press conference by the country's three biggest business groups that surveys of business leaders have shown they expect the yen to be in a Y75-Y90 range this ... See all stories on this topic »