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NTT DoCoMo Inc., despite being Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, has been struggling against tough smartphone competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which is leading in that area. But one edge that the cellphone behemoth — it has more than 60 million subscribers ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
The 27-year-old defender says he was ready for a change of scenery after helping Sanfrecce Hiroshima win theJ. League title last season.
Japan’s earnings season has drawn to a close with the sharply weaker yen helping inflate profit at some of the nation’s top exporters, but, warn some commentators, the drop is not all good news. Sony booked its first annual profit in five years, Toyota ...
Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday Japan’s economic drive needed accompanying structural reforms, voicing fear that recent growth could be just a “sugar high.” Japan posted 0.9 percent quarter-to-quarter growth in the three months through March, during which time Prime Minister Shinzo ...
The yen climbed versus a majority of its 16 major peers after economy minister Akira Amari said further losses in the currency would negatively affect the people, and the government’s job is to minimize that. The yen retreated from near its weakest point in ...
Financial chiefs from the Group of Seven advanced economies are set to wrap up a two-day meeting by pledging again to refrain from competitive currency devaluations.
Tokyo stocks have surged to multiyear highs on the back of the yen’s tumble, brought on by the Bank of Japan’s powerful credit easing measures and hopes of a sustainable recovery in the U.S. Analysts believe the stock rally will continue over the long ...
The dollar shatters the ¥100 barrier in Tokyo trading, causing the Nikkei 225 stock average to surge 2.93 percent and end at its highest level in over five years.
Japan’s aggressive monetary easing policy may spark debate at a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven financial chiefs from Friday as the dollar surged to ¥101 in Tokyo for the first time in more than four years. During the gathering in Aylesbury in ...
Economic revitalization minister Akira Amari denied Friday that Japan is engaging in currency manipulation to boost exports after the dollar topped ¥100 for the first time in four years. Amari said signs of recovery in the U.S. economy were behind the dollar’s rise against ...
As the Bank of Japan prepares to boost its inflation forecasts this week, analysts from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to JPMorgan Chase & Co. say the estimates may themselves be used as a tool for ending deflation. The BOJ may indicate that its 2 ...
Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 started a two-day meeting Thursday night in the U.S. with Japan expected to make an effort to play down concerns about its bold quantitative easing measures, which are weakening the yen and threatening to harm other economies. ...
The U.S. Treasury Department says it will pressure Japan to refrain from competitive devaluation while stopping short of accusing it of manipulating the yen.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Tuesday to take necessary measures to avoid adverse effects of the yen’s depreciation on the economy, indicating some domestic policymakers have become cautious about the sharp moves in the currency’s rate. “We’ll monitor the impact on companies and households ...