For Min Jeong Lee's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
The land of Abenomics is betting on "Modinomics." The demand is so strong that assets of Nomura Holdings Inc.'s India equity fund quadrupled to almost ¥400 billion ($3.6 billion) in just the past year. Japanese investors owned $13 billion of Indian stocks and bonds at the ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's policies have a surprise new critic: the head of Japan's stock exchange. The central bank's purchases of exchange-traded funds are distorting the market, Japan Exchange Group Inc. CEO Akira Kiyota said. Kuroda's program of spending ¥6 trillion a year ...
The Bank of Japan has had a lot less impact on the Japanese stock market than some have assumed in recent years, and the effectiveness of its purchases in reflating the economy may be limited, according to analysis by Societe Generale. While the BOJ held ...
As the biggest earthquake ever recorded in Japan rocked the Roppongi Hills skyscraper in central Tokyo, Makoto Yamada put on his helmet, dropped to his knees, and traded. "We had an option to leave, but we couldn't leave the position at the time," the 39-year-old ...
When Hiroe Tanaka's father died, he left behind something that would change her life: a recipe for fried meat on a stick. It was an act of love. His daughter adored the Japanese street food known as kushikatsu, and he'd spent endless hours working ...
Japan's stock market is again showing itself handcuffed to U.S. growth prospects and its own currency. Ties tightened in the last week as separate sell-offs exceeding 1 percent befell Topix investors for no other reason than the failure of Donald Trump's health care overhaul. The ...
V Technology Co., a small Japanese supplier to display makers, added a surprising new shareholder last June: Renaissance Technologies. For the secretive U.S. hedge fund started by Jim Simons, it turned out to be an especially savvy bet. Shares of V Tech, as it's known, ...
International equity investors are giving up on Japan. After dumping their Tokyo stock holdings for four of the past five months, foreigners are on track for their biggest annual exodus since 1987. Back then, they were fleeing bubbly valuations and the Black Monday crash. This ...
