A squadron of Chinese Navy ships sailed through straits near Japan into the Western Pacific this week, while Beijing blasted Tokyo’s adoption of a new national security strategy putting itself on a …
Pacifist Japan Unveils Unprecedented $320 Billion Military Build-Up
Japan said on Friday it would begin a once-unthinkable $320 billion military build-up that would arm it with missiles capable of striking China and ready it for a sustained conflict as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears.
Factbox: What Will Japan’s Military Build-Up Look Like?
Japan unveiled a new national security strategy on Friday along with details of its biggest military build-up since World War Two, in a marked shift away from the pacifism that has dominated its political discourse for seven decades.
As Kuroda bows out, Bank of Japan’s rising hawks eye end to unloved yield cap
As Haruhiko Kuroda’s decade helming Japan’s central bank nears an end, more of his senior colleagues are seeing a case to remove the bank’s cap on bond yields, a key but problematic piece of his …
Factbox: Japan tax reform to target low-emission cars, shift to investment
Japan will extend tax breaks on low-emission cars and seek to shift its massive household savings into investment in the government’s annual tax code revision to be approved on Friday.
Lands’ End winding down Japan business
A Lands’ End executive said the merchant would move its investment from Japan to other parts of the business that are expected to offer a higher rate of return.
Sony plans smartphone sensor factory in Japan – Nikkei
Sony Group Corp is considering building a new factory to make smartphone image sensors in the Kumamoto prefecture of Japan, Nikkei reported on Thursday.
Kuwait’s November trade surplus with Japan up 73%
Kuwait’s trade surplus with Japan surged 73.0 percent from the past year to JPY 100.8 billion (USD 743 million) in November, up for the 20th consecutive month, as exports continued to outpace imports …
Hotel Okura, a luxury hotel group in Japan, will open a new hotel in the capital of Oman in 2027
Hotel Okura, one of the luxury hotel group in Japan, announced that ‘the Okura Resort Muscat’ will open in Muscat, the capital of Oman, in 2027.
Japan ruling party tax panel agrees on tax hikes to beef up defence
A tax panel of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday agreed to raise the country’s coroporate, income and tobacco taxes to pay for a doubling in the defence budget over the next five years as it confronts rising regional tensions.