A coalition of countries will mobilise $20 billion of public and private finance to help Indonesia shut coal power plants and bring forward the sector’s peak emissions date by seven years to 2030, the …
Japan’s monetary policy is ‘absolutely not’ getting tighter anytime soon: Financial services firm
Jesper Koll of Monex Group says Japan is a “bastion of stability” and there will be “no change” for the Bank of Japan for at least another nine to 12 months.
Cruise Ships to Return to Japan for First Time Since Early Covid
Foreign cruise ships will be able to return to Japan for the first time since the early days of the pandemic in 2020, when the luxury, 13-deck Diamond Princess was quarantined in Yokohama with …
Japan, US Collaborating on Next-Generation Chips, Nishimura Says
Japan’s trade minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Japan and the US are working together to make the next generation of semiconductors, while also collaborating with a broad range of Asian nations to …
Bain Capital Asia: Large corporations in Japan are ’embracing change’
David Gross-Loh from Bain Capital discusses their deals in Japan and says it is the beginning of an “important secular trend” for the country’s economy.
When is Japan’s Q3 GDP and how could it affect USDJPY?
Japan’s Finance Ministry is up for releasing the first version of the third quarter (Q2) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for 2022 at 23:50 GMT on Monday, early Tuesday morning in Asia. Market …
Biden: Hard to Say If China Can Control North Korea
President Joe Biden says he cautioned China’s Xi Jinping on North Korea, a Chinese ally that has recently accelerated tests of ballistic missiles, alarming South Korea and Japan. Biden said he made it …
Japan lender SMFG reports 8% increase in Q2 net profit
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc , Japan’s second-largest bank, on Monday reported an 8.0% increase in second-quarter net profit.
U.S., Japan hold joint exercise in shadow of China
The U.S. military and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces will begin a large-scale joint military exercise around the Tokunoshima Island southwest of the country on Thursday in the face of increasing …
Japan’s Mitsui to begin self-driving truck transport business
Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. will launch a logistics business using self-driving trucks as early as 2026, Nikkei has learned. The move comes as Japan amended a law in April, allowing level-4 …