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TOKYO -- Sri Lanka is calling for new investments from Japan after reaching an agreement to restructure $5.8 billion of debt with creditors, including Japan, India and China, hoping to revive its economy and achieve balanced diplomacy.
More than 10 per cent of young Japanese have experienced sexual groping on trains and other public settings, according to a study by the Cabinet Office, with around 3.4 per cent of 36,000 people interviewed saying they had been molested more than 11 times.
TOKYO -- Overseas asset purchases by Japanese individuals through a newly revamped tax-free investment scheme have emerged as a major factor driving down the yen, with their scale likely surpassing the country's trade deficit during the first half of this year.
TOKYO -- India is poised to overtake China as the top driver of global food demand over the next decade as their economic and population trends diverge, according to recent estimates from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
TOKYO -- Money market data released by the Bank of Japan on Friday suggests that there were yen-buying interventions to the tune of $22 billion on Thursday, pointing to the latest effort by the Japanese authorities to shore up the embattled yen.
TOKYO -- A global stock rally powered a year of record returns for Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the world's biggest institutional investors, which is likely to face a higher bar for gains as wages rise.
The issue broke out late last month, triggering an uproar over reports that two American service members had been charged with sexual assaults months earlier.
