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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.
TOKYO -- Mitsui & Co. will take a 10% interest in a $5.5 billion liquefied natural gas project in the United Arab Emirates, the Japanese trading house said Thursday, gravitating back toward the region where it got its start in the field.
TOKYO — A group of residents in Tokyo said on Wednesday (July 10) they were aiming to block construction of a massive logistics and data centre planned by Singaporean developer GLP, in a worrying sign for businesses looking to Japan to meet growing demand.
The Self-Defence Forces managed to hire only 9,959 people in the financial year 2023, just over 50 per cent of their target and a record low for personnel joining the three branches of the armed forces.
Protests have erupted across Okinawa following revelations that the Japanese government withheld information about US troops’ sexual assaults on local women, with residents expressing outrage and demanding greater accountability from Tokyo.
TOKYO -- Tokyo's first female governor, Yuriko Koike, secured a third term on Sunday in the capital's gubernatorial election. Koike, 71, will hold the position for another four years, overseeing Japan's most populous city and its largest municipal budget.