For Hideyuki Sano's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Selling the yen remains one of the hottest macro trades after BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda rammed home the message at the last policy meeting in June that it’s too early to cut back on stimulus.
The world’s biggest pension fund has substantially reduced holdings of Russian bonds, which can still be traded over-the-counter.
The world’s biggest automaker forecasts a 20% decline in operating profit for the current fiscal year despite posting robust annual car sales.
Shares of Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. jumped as much as 7% last Wednesday after the company said it would raise prices for its Super Dry beer.
The speed of decline caught policymakers off guard, exposing a rift between a central bank intent on stoking inflation and a government facing backlash over rising prices.
Pointing to the risk of political and economic instability, a growing number of investors in Japanese stocks now believe that canceling the games would be better for the market.
To mark the ascension of the new Emperor, the government has declared an unprecedented 10-day Golden Week holiday from late April to early May, worrying investors who say a market shutdown could cause disruption and unsettle the yen. With Crown Prince Naruhito scheduled to be ...
Yumiko Okubo, 71, had forgotten how to heat up food. "What's a microwave?" she asked her husband, Eiichi. She was in the early stages of dementia, struggling with vocabulary and unable to teach the kimono-dressing classes she had run for 25 years. The difficulty with everyday tasks ...
When Sparx Green Energy & Technology, a renewable energy firm, found an ideal plot of land on which to build a solar panel factory, there was a catch. The three people on public record as the owners of the land had died years earlier. What ...
Japanese investors, traditionally among France’s most loyal lenders, are not yet convinced that French political risks have faded and are staying away from buying the country’s bonds.
