Japan will run a $550 billion U.S.-bound investment package agreed in Tokyo's tariff deal with Washington without any impact on the foreign exchange market, its top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa ...
KKR prepares for private credit boom in Japan
Diane Raposio, who oversees both KKR’s credit and capital markets businesses in Asia, said it is focused on developing a private credit business in Japan as quickly as possible and tapping the country ...
Indonesia Finance Chief Wants Growth Before Easing Deficit Cap
Indonesia’s new finance minister said he would not consider easing long-standing fiscal restraints until he could prove that Southeast Asia’s largest economy could grow faster by spending more ...
MUFG in talks for $2.6 billion stake in India’s Shriram Finance, Economic Times reports
Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is in advanced talks to buy a 20% stake in Indian non-banking finance company Shriram Finance for 232 billion rupees ($2.61 billion), the Economic Times reported ...
Indonesia tycoons line up to buy ‘patriot’ bonds
Willingness to finance sovereign wealth fund for low returns seen as show of support for President Prabowo Subianto
Investors sense this time is different for Japan
The number of babies born to Japanese parents fell below 700,000 in 2024 for the first time since records began at the end of the 19th century. The number had high shock value in itself, but for would ...
Japan gets déjà vu over Trump tariff tensions
Trump’s critique of Japan was in vogue at the time. In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan’s industry, subsidised by the Japanese government, was running ahead of the rest of the world and flooding US markets ...
Japan’s beer-making giant Asahi stops production after cyberattack
A day after one of Japan's biggest brewers, Asahi Group, announced it suspended production due to a cyberattack, the company said it has no timeline for its recovery.
Japan’s outgoing Prime Minister Ishiba and South Korea’s Lee hold final summit in Busan
Japan’s outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held a summit Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade wars have pushed the two often-feuding Asian ...
Japan’s MUFG in talks for 20% stake in India’s Shriram Finance, Economic Times reports
Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is in advanced talks to buy a 20% stake in Indian non-banking finance company Shriram Finance for 232 billion rupees ($2.61 billion), the Economic Times reported ...