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Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s 10-year bonds rose on speculation the yen’s advance to a 14-year high against the dollar will diminish earnings at companies dependent on overseas sales, boosting demand for the relative safety of debt.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Japan property shares fell to a six-month low after developer Anabuki Construction Inc. filed for bankruptcy with 140 billion yen ($1.58 billion) in debt, the nation’s fifth-largest corporate failure this year.
Tokyo - Shares in Japan were flat in Thursday morning trading on worries about the strong yen and the Japanese economy. The benchmark Nikkei gained 3.72 points, or 0.04 per cent, to stand at 9,445.36. ...
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese commodity-linked stocks gained after prices for oil and metals rose, while automakers fell as the dollar traded near a 14-year low against the yen.
YOMITAN, Okinawa — Ever since the United States and Japan signed a pact in 2006 to realign U.S. forces in Japan, the plan has been to close Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, located in urban Okinawa, and relocate its air operations to rural Camp Schwab, where a new airfield would be built to accommodate the move.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese stocks retreated, dragging down the Topix index toward its lowest close in seven months, as the dollar traded close to a 14-year low against the yen.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said China’s currency is probably too weak, backing calls from the U.S. and Europe to let the yuan appreciate.
TOKYO, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's mother may have surreptitiously given him millions of yen for his political campaigns, sources say.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Japan, Asia’s biggest wheat importer, bought 106,000 metric tons of milling wheat at a regular tender today, the Ministry of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries said.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s two-year government notes rose for the first time in four days before reports this week that economists said will show consumer prices declined for an eighth month and the jobless rate climbed.
Venomous redback spiders, named after their fiery markings, are invading Japan's Osaka region, a wildlife expert recently warned.It is believed that that they actually arrived years ago aboard a cargo ship coming from Australia, most likely in a container of Australian woodchips.Japan Wildlife Research Centre official Toshio Kishimoto reports that as many as a dozen people have been bitten ...
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Australian stocks advanced after commodity prices rose, while Japanese futures retreated as the dollar traded close to a 14-year low against the yen.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s notes rose before reports this week that economists said will show consumer prices fell for an eighth month and the jobless rate climbed.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s exports fell at the slowest pace in a year in October as worldwide government spending boosted demand, sustaining the economic recovery.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s alternative stock-trading systems handled a record amount of transactions in October, restoring their lead over the country’s third-largest exchange.
HONOLULU - Despite an uptick in the number of visitors from the West Coast and Japan, nearly 2 percent fewer tourists arrived in Hawaii in October compared to the same month last year, according to new data.
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