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Nikkei up on BOJ optimism
(21 mins ago) Tokyo stocks maintained early gains and were up 1.12 percent in early afternoon trade after the Bank of Japan made its widely-expected announcement of no new easing measures. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 171.79 points at 15,552.81 soon after the afternoon session started while the Topix index of all first-section issues was up 0.72 percent, or 9.12 points, at 1,279.51, ...
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Bank of Japan sees economy improving
(1 hr 4 mins ago) Japan's central bank says the world's third-biggest economy is "picking up'' as demand recovers in other countries and remains resilient at home. The Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting on Wednesday with no change to its strategy of doubling the monetary base for the sake of reaching a 2 percent inflation target and jolting the economy out of two ...
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Economic Report Bank of Japan ups economic outlook
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The Bank of Japan raised its economic assessment at the end of its two-day meeting on Wednesday, while holding its policy ...
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Asia Markets Japan stocks hold gains after central-bank meet
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks stayed on course for a fresh multiyear high Wednesday after the country's central bank raised its economic outlook, even as it left other elements of its monetary policy ...
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Researchers find high cesium in some Pacific plankton
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
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Japans central bank says economy picking up
TOKYO -; Japan's central bank says the world's third-biggest economy is "picking up" as demand recovers in other countries and remains resilient at ...
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Japanese Market Rallies On Stimulus Hopes Weaker Yen
The Japanese stock market is trading notably higher on Wednesday with a stronger U.S. dollar and the overnight positive close on Wall Street triggering some hectic buying almost across the board. Investors appear to be betting on expectations of additional stimulus from the central bank as well.The benchmark Nikkei 225 index is trading at 15,544.5, up 163.5 points or 1.1 percent from its ...
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Kyle Bass Bets on Full-Blown Japan Crisis
Kyle Bass hopes he is wrong, and so may everyone else, as the danger predicted by the founder of Dallas-based Hayman Capital is nothing less than a full blown financial crisis in the world's third-largest economy, Japan. While the hedge-fund trade of the year has been to short the yen and buy Japanese stocks placed for an export boom, Mr. Bass sees in "Abenomics" - stimulus from ...
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Japan outlasts Denmark in thriller at Sudirman Cup
/enpproperty--> KUALA LUMPUR - Japan outgunned Denmark to top Gruop D after a nail-biting final group match at the 13th Sudirman Cup team badminton championships on Tuesday, while China overpowered Indonesia 5-0. The Japan-Denmark tie see-sawed with Denmark taking the lead after the first and third matches, only for Japan to equalize. After Denmark's mixed doubles pair of Joachim ...
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China-Japan trade will pick up
Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the countries' already strained ties, leading Chinese think tanks said in an annual report released on ...
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Japan uses sound waves against Chinese sub
A Maritime Self-Defence Force patrol plane used sound waves emitted from a sonobuoy against a submarine detected in the contiguous zone around Minami-Daitojima island in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday, according to government sources. The action against the submarine, which is believed to belong to the Chinese Navy, is an apparent demonstration that the MSDF is steadily monitoring the movement of ...
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Japanese scholars slam Tokyo on history
A group of Japanese intellectuals on Tuesday rebutted their government's territorial claim to Dokdo and urged Japan to have a correct understanding of history. During a press conference in Busan, they called on Shimane prefecture to rethink its annual observance of Takeshima (Dokdo in Japanese) Day, designated in 2005 to underline its sovereignty claim to the Dokdo islets in the East Sea. ...
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Japan emerges as solar beacon
Japan had some optimistic economic news last week showing that the country's GDP expanded by 0.9 per cent last quarter – its quickest pace in a year. The data suggest that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive stimulus measures may be working. They certainly seem to be working to improve this reputation: investors are more confident in a Japanese leader than any time since ...
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Visa violators continue sit-in at Immigration
A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
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Japan’s cellphone lineups for summer 2013 — fit and focused
Lean and focused would be a good way to characterize the recently launched lineups from Japan's three top cellphone carriers. While NTT DoCoMo Inc. had released 18 kinds of smartphones last summer, it trimmed down to 9 for this ...
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Sony shares rise on report company may discuss spinoff
Shares of Sony Corp. rose 9.3 percent in the United States on Tuesday after Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported the company's board may discuss spinning off its entertainment division. American depositary receipts in Tokyo-based Sony advanced to close at $22.91 in New York, their biggest gain since May 14, when investor Daniel Loeb's Third Point proposed selling as much as 20 ...
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Japans trade deficit hits $8.6B due to weaker yen
TOKYO -; Japan's trade deficit widened to a larger-than-expected 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in April as its weakening currency accentuated surging import ...
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Is Sony Un-Japanese Enough to Change
Few foreign activist investors have made much headway in forcing change in Japan, where a conservative corporate culture favors long-standing ties with banks, business partners and workers rather than shareholders seeking value. Struggling electronics ...
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Shintaro Ishihara Framing WWII as Japanese aggression is self-persecution
Japan's right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara claimed on May 18 that if Japan's crimes during World War II were to be framed as Japanese aggression, this would in fact mean self-persecution, Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's national newspapers, ...
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Japan exports disappoint full benefits of weak yen yet to show
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports rose less than expected in April from a year earlier due to weak demand from Europe and China, highlighting the challenges confronting the world's third-biggest economy as policymakers try to engineer a sustained ...
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Tokyo stocks open up 0.39
TOKYO stocks have opened 0.39 per cent higher with investor sentiment staying bullish after US shares closed at new all-time highs and despite worse-than-expected Japanese trade ...
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Japan stocks climb Mitsubishi Motors Sony jump
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks extended gains early Wednesday, with exporters spurred after two Federal Reserve members suggested the central bank wasn't close to slowing monetary stimulus in the U.S. The Nikkei Stock ...
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Japans trade deficit widens as imports surge
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Japan's trade deficit widened sharply in April, as export growth was tepid while imports surged, according to Finance Ministry data released Wednesday. The trade gap grew to 880 billion yen ($8.6 billion) from March's 364 billion deficit, as exports rose just 3.8% from a year earlier, well below Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters forecasts for a gain of 5% and ...
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Japans trade deficit expands 70 in April
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's trade deficit expanded a worse-than-expected 70 percent on year to $8.6 billion in April, government data showed Wednesday, as a weaker yen made imports costlier.The monthly trade deficit came to 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion), 69.7 percent higher than the year-before deficit of 518.4 billion yen, finance ministry data showed.The deficit was the biggest for the month ...
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Fish-gulping cormorants maneuvered by a fisherman duck underwater to catch sweetfish in the Chikugogawa river.
ASAKURA, Fukuoka Prefecture--The reflection of 3,000 fireworks colored the surface of the Chikugogawa river in the Harazuru hot springs area of Haki district here on May 20, commemorating the opening of the "ukai" traditional cormorant fishing season and heralding the start of ...
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Tokyo's new international airport making waves
Haneda airport was renamed Haneda International Airport with the opening of the new International Terminal, which will see several million passengers pass through it each year as the airport regains its status as a global airport with connections to major cities across the world.
When Haneda first opened in 1931 it was the largest civilian airport in the whole country and during the Second World War became a major US Air Base after the invasion of Japan and the country’s surrender. Read more
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