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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 18, 2022
Nikkei posts biggest weekly gain in nearly two years
The benchmark ended higher on Friday and posted its biggest weekly gain in nearly two years amid caution over a five-day rally in local markets.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 7, 2022
SBI Sumishin Net Bank to postpone $1.2 billion IPO
The postponement marks the latest example of an IPO being shelved in markets globally, as investors from Hong Kong to Zurich grow anxious following the events in Ukraine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 11, 2022
Tokyo pushes to reform its $6.5 trillion stock market. Analysts aren’t impressed.
Japan Exchange Group Inc. said 1,841 constituents would make up the new 'prime” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but some analysts see it as little more than window-dressing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 30, 2021
Nikkei marks best year-end close since 1980s bubble
The Nikkei has rallied 4.9% this year, driven by fiscal and monetary stimulus as well as optimism over a post-pandemic economic recovery
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 30, 2021
The winners and losers in Japan's stock market, and what to watch in 2022
Shipping stocks topped advancers on the Nikkei 225 Stock Average this year, and commodities-related groups were among the best performers on the Topix.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2021
Kishida floats buyback regulations, spooking Japanese stocks
Share buybacks surged in Japan under the Abe administration, who implemented a corporate governance code for companies to make them more responsive to shareholders.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 16, 2021
Will TSE reforms boost Japan's corporate value?
In a bid to attract more long-term investors, Japan plans to reform its primary stock market.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 12, 2021
Foreign traders buying most Japan stocks since Abenomics heyday as Suga exits
Foreign investors are set to buy the most Japanese stocks since the heyday of Abenomics after Suga's shock resignation put Japan back in the headlines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 26, 2021
Threat of demotion spurs Japanese firms to shake up stock register
With just months to go until a key deadline in the Tokyo Stock Exchange's makeover, companies are being forced to divest stakes, unwind tie-ups or cancel treasury stock.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 3, 2021
SoftBank takes top spot on Topix from Toyota as influence grows
While Toyota trades are little changed in 2021, SoftBank stock is up nearly 30%, rallying past a two-decade record to a new high.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 9, 2021
Tokyo’s promise of a generational stock revamp draws skeptics
Japan Exchange Group Inc., which owns the Tokyo Stock Exchange, plans to cut the number of market segments, apply new listing criteria and condense five divisions into three sections.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 6, 2021
China’s dreams of self-reliance still depend on Japan Inc.
For signs of how China’s ambitions to become a self-made, high-tech industrial powerhouse are faring, look to Japan Inc.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 8, 2020
Zombie companies feed off the living
Like their namesakes, zombies feed off the living. They are companies that should close their doors but don't, cannibalizing healthy businesses, depriving them of customers and income.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 29, 2020
Japan stocks finally beat bubble-era high — at least on one gauge
The Nikkei 500, an index that includes 275 more companies than the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei average, rose to a record Monday, topping the closing high in December 1989.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 22, 2020
Japanese firms’ cash-hoarding now viewed as boon for dividends
The mountains of cash once criticized as lack of capital efficiency are now being touted as a reason to buy Japanese stocks as dividends decline elsewhere.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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