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The alleged insurers include Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire, Sompo Japan, Mitsui Sumitomo, and Aioi Nissay Dowa. The FSA issued the order earlier this month, based ...

A fund backed by Japan's government has offered to buy out JSR Corp., a firm central to the manufacture of semiconductors, in a deal worth $6.2 billion, ...

Japan stepped up efforts to bolster its chip industry on Monday, with a government-backed fund agreeing to buy semiconductor materials maker JSR Corp for ...

In its latest bid to support home-grown chip manufacturing, the Japanese government has sought to consolidate the country's grip over some chemicals that ...

State-backed fund's buyout of semiconductor equipment maker gives the government more grip on industry.

State-backed fund Japan Investment Corp. will acquire semiconductor material maker JSR Corp. for about 900 billion yen ($6.3 billion), JSR said on June 26, ...

The move could help Tokyo expand control over compounds essential for making advanced semiconductors.

The government-backed Japan Investment Corp. plans to offer shareholders ¥4350 a share in a tender offer around December.

Japan Investment Corp., a government-backed group, has agreed to buy Tokyo-listed chipmaking materials provider JSR for $6.3 billion.

TOKYO (AP) — Futoshi Ikeda guided Japan to the Women's Under-20 World Cup title in 2018, and last year his team was the runner-up to Spain — reversing the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will reinstate South Korea to its "white list" for exports with fast-track trade status effective July 21, Japanese trade minister ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan extended the term of its top currency official Masato Kanda for another year, in an unusual move that keeps the man behind last year's ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan decided to restore South Korea to its list of preferred trading partners, adding to signs of improving ties that will help them ...

Japan put Korea back on its "white list" of trusted trading partners on Tuesday, nearly four years after the initial exclusion, the Ministry of Trade, ...

Japan announced a decision Tuesday to reinstate Korea on its "white list" of trusted trading partners, about four years after the removal, in a move to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki kept up verbal warnings against the yen's depreciation on Tuesday, saying he would respond ...

TOKYO: Japan will restore South Korea to a list of trusted trade partners in July, the government said Tuesday, reversing its 2019 removal during a dispute ...

Japan will take "appropriate" steps to cope with excess volatility in foreign exchange markets, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on June 27 in his ...

Japan will relist South Korea as a preferred trade partner on July 21 after a similar move by Seoul on Tokyo's trade status, the Japanese government said ...

Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki kept up verbal warnings on Tuesday against the yen's depreciation, saying he would respond appropriately if ...

SEOUL -- The Japanese government announced Tuesday that Tokyo will restore South Korea to its list of preferred export destinations, lifting the final.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will reinstate South Korea to its "white list" for exports with fast-track trade status effective July 21, Japanese trade minister ...

The Korea-Japan economic conflicts began to resolve in earnest in March of this year as Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...

Masato Kanda has become just the fourth official in the past three decades to serve a third year as vice finance minister for international affairs, ...

Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters that Japan and South Korea have also agreed to set up a framework to review and follow up on the systems as ...

TOKYO: Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Tuesday reiterated that “appropriate” steps would be taken to deal with the yen's sharp drop versu...

Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat the yen's fresh declines driven by market expectations that the Bank of Japan will keep interest ...

Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat the yen's fresh declines driven by market expectations that the Bank of Japan will keep interest ...

Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki kept up verbal warnings on Tuesday against the yen's depreciation, saying he would respond appropriately if ...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki kept up verbal warnings on Tuesday against the yen's depreciation, ...

Japan announced Tuesday a decision to reinstate South Korea as a preferred nation with fast-track trade status from July 21, virtually ending a four-year ...

Lee Do Woon, spokesperson of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, called Japan's step a symbolic measure that underscores the countries' “fully restored ...

The devices were made mandatory following an incident in which a 5-year-old girl died after being left behind in a bus last September.

The trend is being fueled by increased support for entrepreneurs through the hosting of startup business contests.

Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters that Japan and South Korea have also agreed to set up a framework to review and follow up on the systems as ...

The return to Japan's so-called white list of trading partners will smooth out export procedures to South Korea and comes about three months after Seoul ...

TOKYO -- Japan has set a goal of fielding 8000 diplomatic employees by the end of the decade, about a 20% increase in staff needed to addre.

Countries need to balance between environmental and economic objectives, says Japan Bank for International Cooperation chairman.

Japan decided to restore South Korea to its list of preferred trading partners, the latest step toward bolstering relations that will help them strengthen ...

TOKYO -- Japan and South Korea aim to resume a currency swap agreement after an eight-year hiatus, using their thaw in bilateral relations t.

SEOUL – Japan is putting South Korea back on its “whitelist” of trusted trading partners, marking the end to a trade dispute that had dragged on for four ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda warned against the yen's ongoing weakness on Wednesday, saying the authorities would tak.

Japan will respond "appropriately" to excessive volatility in foreign exchange markets, its top currency diplomat said on June 28, after the U.S. dollar ...

OSAKA -- More local governments in Japan are preparing to lend support to foreign tourists should a natural disaster strike, although only some 30% of.

Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters that Japan and South Korea have also agreed to set up a framework to review and follow up on the systems as ...

Kiyo Weiss, Air Canada's senior director of sales for the Asia-Pacific region, saying that occupancy for Air Canada's flights to Japan was 95% in May, ...

Visitors to a beach resort city in southwest Japan got a shock on Tuesday when they woke to discover the usually crystal-clear sea had turned an ominous ...

Those age 70 and above, who on average spend more than ¥7000 on fish per month, are feeling a much larger inflationary hit from food than younger people.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group CEO Hironori Kamezawa's total compensation was ¥257 million ($1.8 million) for the year ended in March, including stock awards, ...

The chief executive officers of Japan's deal-hungry megabanks are earning a fraction of their global peers, showing how the nation still frowns upon ...

Residents in city of Nago on the island of Okinawa awoke to find an area of usually clear blue water had turned a gruesome shade of red.

Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said one-sided movements were seen in the yen's slide, which would warrant appropriate action by the Japanese authorities if ...

The Government of the United States and the Government of Japan and held the Extended Deterrence Dialogue at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri on June ...