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Market fears of a possible intervention by the Bank of Japan to support the dollar helped the U.S. currency recover its poise Friday after it hit a 14-year low against the yen.
Forget about designer brands and quirky gadgets: low-priced fashions and green products scored big in Japan in 2009, an advertising agency survey found, as consumers pinch pennies and take advantage of government stimulus subsidies.
There are many reasons Japan's population is headed for a sharp decline, but one of them is that for working women giving birth usually spells the death of their careers.
Japan and China agreed on Friday to conduct their first joint military training exercise, in the latest sign of warming ties between the Asian neighbors, long marked by mutual suspicion and spats over a range of issues.
Japan got word Friday that prices fell again in October, just as a surging yen threatens to worsen the deflation that is undermining the country's fragile economy.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan stepped closer to currency intervention on Friday than at any time in the last five years by checking exchange rates with commercial banks as the yen rallied to a 14-year high against the dollar.
Free agent pitcher Jose Contreras has met with officials of the Softbank Hawks of Japan's Pacific League. Contreras threw 50 pitches in the bullpen while being observed by Softbank scouts, the Nikkan Sports newspaper reported Friday. The 37-year-old Cuban right-hander became a free agent earlier this month.
Japan's finance minister raised the prospect of a Group of Seven joint statement on currencies to cool the yen's rally as the dollar tumbled to a 14-year low against the yen on Friday.
A fall in Japan's jobless rate pointed at recovery in the world's number two economy Friday, but the government fretted that the surging yen could again derail the export-reliant economy.
Japan's finance minister said he is considering making contact with the U.S. and Europe about the increasing valuations of the yen.
TOKYO, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Japan Friday closely monitored the rising yen against the U.S. dollar with its finance minister saying the government will take necessary steps if needed.
The yen's sharp rise is harmful to Japan's export-led economy, the finance minister said Friday as the greenback traded around 85 yen, its lowest level since the mid-1990s.
Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month was 5.1 percent, down from 5.3 percent in September, according to government figures released Friday.
Japan's unemployment rate fell to 5.1 percent in October from 5.3 percent in September, improving for a third consecutive month, the government said Friday.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s government bonds rose, sending five-year yields to the lowest since 2005, as stocks declined on speculation the yen’s gain to a 14-year high against the dollar will hurt exporters and deepen deflation.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s trade ministry backed Toshiba Corp.’s bid for Areva SA’s power-grid division in a letter to French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde , Dow Jones reported, citing a person close to Toshiba.
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