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Japan prices fall in March as deflation drags on
Japan's consumer price index fell 0.9 percent in March from a year earlier, underlining the challenge of ending a long spell of debilitating deflation ...
Hyundai Motor logs 15 percent drop in 1Q profit
Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday its first quarter net profit fell 15 percent as a labor dispute slowed car production in South Korea. The country's ...
Japan war shrine reflects ruling party nationalism
Visits by Cabinet ministers and lawmakers to a shrine honoring Japan's war dead, including 14 World War II leaders convicted of atrocities, signal ...
Japan war shrine visits anger China, South Korea
Dozens of Japanese lawmakers paid homage at a national war shrine Tuesday morning, risking more anger from neighbors South Korea and China over visits ...
World finance leaders issue sober assessment
World finance leaders issued a somber assessment on Saturday of the global economy, saying the recovery remains uneven with growth and jobs in short ...
G-20 countries pledge stronger efforts
World finance leaders are pledging to pursue further actions to bolster a disappointingly weak global recovery. They also reaffirmed their commitment ...
Japan PM lays out next steps in growth revival
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlined the next steps of his grand plan for restoring Japan's economic power in a news conference Friday, naming a slew ...
As US talks up diplomacy, NKorea takes hard line
The United States and Japan opened the door Sunday to new nuclear talks with North Korea if the saber-rattling country lowered tensions and honored ...
Suu Kyi visit highlights Japan's Myanmar push
Japan's long-deferred aspirations for a larger role in Myanmar are getting a boost this coming week with a visit by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ...
Japan PM's biggest test on economy still to come
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to find out that bending central bankers to his will was the easy part of jolting Japan's economy out of its two ...
Japan's Nikkei jumps above 13,000 on BOJ stimulus
Japan's benchmark stock index surged to its highest level in more than four years Friday, its second straight day of big gains after the central bank ...
Japan central bank revamps policy to boost economy
Japan is taking aggressive action to lift consumer prices, encourage borrowing and help pull the world's third-largest economy out of a long slump.
BOJ holds first policy meeting under new governor
Japan's central bank is holding its first policy meeting under a new governor amid expectations of fresh moves to ease monetary policy and spur a ...
Japan moves to revamp troubled power industry
Japan's Cabinet has approved a proposal to revamp its troubled electricity industry and foster more competition by obliging utilities to split power ...
Japan survey finds business sentiment improving
Japanese manufacturers are more upbeat about business conditions than they were late last year, but less so than expected, a central bank survey found
Asian giants tiptoe toward free trade deal
China, Japan and South Korea are inching ahead with talks for a free trade zone that would rival the European Union and North America in economic heft
Japan jobless rate up, prices, manufacturing fall
Japan's jobless rate edged higher and industrial production fell slightly in February as consumer prices also fell, underscoring the fragility of the ...
BOJ chief says Japan economy on the mend
Japan's economy has stopped weakening and should show signs of recovery by midyear, the newly appointed central bank governor said Thursday, as ...
Asian stocks follow US higher on upbeat econ data
Asian markets followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday after upbeat economic data from the world's largest economy. Reports overnight from the U.S.
Japan, EU agree to start free-trade negotiations
Japan and the European Union agreed Monday to start negotiations for a free-trade pact encompassing nations that account for nearly a third of the ...
Japan's central bank chief vows to end deflation
The newly installed governor of Japan's central bank said Thursday that he plans to do whatever he can to end deflation and break the economy out of ...
Japan's Feb trade deficit at $8.1B as exports lag
Japan recorded a trade deficit of 777.5 billion yen ($8.1 billion) in February despite the weaker yen as exports of cars and auto parts slipped while ...
Japan to join talks on Pacific trade pact
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday that Japan will join talks on a Pacific trade pact that would oblige the country to open up sheltered ...
Japan's parliament clears Kuroda to head BOJ
Japan's parliament on Friday endorsed Haruhiko Kuroda, a finance ministry veteran and president of the Asian Development Bank, to become central bank ...
Democrats wary of Japan entering trade talks
Concerned that Japan's possible participation in ongoing trade talks among Pacific nations threatens the U.S. auto industry, Congressional Democrats ...