Assets held by the 121 Upper House members who won seats in the Diet's upper chamber in July averaged ¥29.9 million, data disclosed Wednesday has shown. The figure is 20.7 percent less compared with the average for Upper House members who won seats in the ...
Total financial assets held by Japan's households at the end of September grew 0.6 percent from a year before to ¥1.752 quadrillion, the first rise in three quarters, the Bank of Japan said Monday. Of the total, cash and deposits came to ¥916 trillion, up ...
The House of Representatives could vote in the coming days on legislation backed by Republican and Democratic lawmakers to broaden U.S. sanctions on North Korea, House leaders said on Thursday, a day after Pyongyang announced it had tested a hydrogen nuclear device. Republican House Speaker ...
The Bank of Japan posted a net profit of ¥628.8 billion ($5.13 billion) in the April-September first half, thanks mainly to interest from its massive purchases of Japanese government bonds, it said. The profit, up 7 percent from a year ago, marks the central bank's ...
Financial assets held by Japanese households came to a record high of ¥1.708 quadrillion at the end of March, up 5.2 percent from a year earlier, as a weak yen and rising share prices boosted their value, the Bank of Japan said Monday. The key ...
The recent debate over wealth inequality has highlighted an unpleasant fact for policymakers — that the income gap between rich and poor is not shrinking, even though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies have been in play for two years now.
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne in Germany has disclosed it is worth €3.35 billion ($3.82 billion), making it richer than the Vatican. Publication of the first full report of its wealth reflects greater financial transparency within the German Church since Pope Francis removed a ...
The amount of assets held by households rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier to a record ¥1.654 quadrillion at the end of September, surpassing the previous record of ¥1.645 quadrillion set at the end of June, according to data Thursday from the Bank ...
The Bank of Japan said Wednesday its total assets stood at a record ¥277.10 trillion ($2.35 trillion) at the end of September, as the central bank continued its massive asset purchases from financial institutions to boost the economy. The assets, mainly Japanese government bonds, grew ...
Japan's giant public pension fund said Tuesday its total assets swelled to a record ¥130.9 trillion as of Sept. 30, increasing by ¥3.62 trillion over the three months from July. The Government Pension Investment Fund, the world's largest institutional investor, also said the proportion invested ...
As the world's biggest pension manager moves closer to putting more money in risky assets, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's deputy policy chief says the fund needs to change its governance first. Japan should submit a bill in the next Diet session to overhaul the ...
BitOcean, a Chinese bitcoin startup, joined with New York-based exchange platform Atlas ATS Inc. to bid for the assets of Mt. Gox, the exchange platform that filed for bankruptcy in Japan earlier this year. BitOcean and Atlas will invest $1 million worth of bitcoins to ...
