TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will hold a ministerial meeting as early as next week to start discussions on the release of contaminated Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power …
Coronavirus live news: Indian states call for people under 45 to be eligible for vaccine; cases rising in Japan
Possible fourth wave in Japan; North Korea pulls out of Games to ‘protect athletes’; Indian states seek widening of vaccinations …
Splitit Now Available on the Google Store in Japan
Splitit Payments Limited (“Splitit” or the “Company”) (ASX:SPT), a global payment solutions provider, announces that it is empowering Japanese customers to use installment plans to make purchases from …
Japan real wages eke out first rise in a year as COVID-19 hits prices
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s real wages rose for the first time in a year in February, the government said on Tuesday, largely due to prices weakening as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on …
Can Japan innovate its way out of a climate and energy crisis?
The children who cheered on the Kyoto protocol are almost 30 years old today, but Japan, like most of the developed nations who signed up to it, is still struggling to cut its emissions of greenhouse …
Japan is experiencing one of the earliest cherry blossom blooms in history, and scientists blame global warming
An Osaka Prefecture University researcher says the March 26 bloom in Kyoto, Japan, was the earliest in more than 1,200 years.
China Sends Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Near Okinawa in Message to US and Japan
China sent an aircraft carrier and five escort ships, including a destroyer likened to the U.S. Navy’s Aegis-class vessels, through the Miyako Strait near Okinawa over the weekend in a signal of its …
Japan’s central bank kicks off experiments on issuing digital currency
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) began experiments on Monday to study the feasibility of issuing its own digital currency, joining efforts by other central banks that are aiming to match …
Nomura’s Archegos setback bares growth dilemma for Japan Inc
With just a few days left in the Japanese financial year, staff across Nomura’s empire came into last week finally confident of a decent bonus after a long stretch of belt-tightening. In February, …
Nomura’s Archegos setback bares growth dilemma for Japan Inc
With just a few days left in the Japanese financial year, staff across Nomura’s empire came into last week finally confident of a decent bonus after a long stretch of belt-tightening. In February, …