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Japanese official discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea
Japanese official: discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea . MAY 24, 2013 06:01. . Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said Thursday that when he visited North Korea last week, he finished working-level talks for the proposed resumption of negotiations for establishing formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. His remark suggested that ...
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Sony board examines hedge fund spin-off plan
(MENAFN - Arab News) Sony chief Kazuo Hirai said Wednesday the company was examining a hedge fund proposal to sell off part of its entertainment unit in a bid to boost profits in its core business. Hirai told a press conference board members have started discussing the idea raised by key shareholder Daniel Loeb, whose investment fund Third Point suggested spinning off as much as 20 percent of ...
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Japans ANA to resume Dreamliner flights Sunday
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Thursday said it would put its Dreamliner fleet back into service this weekend, several days ahead of schedule. ANA, the single biggest operator of Boeing's flagship 787, plans to use the high-tech planes for two domestic flights from Chitose airport in Hokkaido to Haneda in Tokyo, earlier than its original plan for June 1. "Modifications for ...
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Veteran fears beginning of the end for Japan as bond market buckles
Yields on 10-year Japanese bonds (JGBs) have doubled in a month and spiked dramatically to 1pc on Thursday, triggering a 7.3pc crash in the Nikkei stock index. It was the biggest one-day fall since the tsunami two years ago, comparable with wild moves seen at the height of the Asian crisis in 1998. The contagion effect set off a retreat from stocks across the world, though Wall Street later ...
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Panel English should be regular primary class
A council directly under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has recommended English become a regular subject at primary schools, as part of efforts to rejuvenate the national education ...
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The market freak-out over Japan today was premature
because of "the unreasonable increase in the volatility of long-term rates." If debt-servicing costs go wild, Japan will have lost its chance to grow out of two lost decades. "There's a window in time where there's room to make the necessary adjustments [i.e. structural reforms]," said Ken Courtis, managing director of Starfort Holdings, at a World Economic ...
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Japanese distiller aims to revolutionise whisky drinking
whisky drinkers, and until recently that meant holing up in a small, dark den designed for serious drinking. But the country's leading distiller has been revolutionising drinking culture with the aid of a pint glass and a more than generous slug of soda.The whisky highballs introduced by Suntory, the privately owned Japanese drinks conglomerate that has the lion's share of the ...
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Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya
Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...
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Streamlined News Japans World Team Racing Together This Weekend
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. MOST of the members of Japan's world championship swim team will race this weekend at the Japan Open in Kanagawa, one of the few meets the team will race in together before heading to Barcelona. On the men's side, Kosuke Hagino will be the busiest swimmer, scheduled to race in four events. He is slated to swim five individual events in the world ...
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Sony Masterworks Salutes 20th-century Musical Visionaries
It's been a century since Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring ushered in an age of radical musical transformation that changed the face of music. A succession of great twentieth century composers went on to create music that transcended tradition and moved the art form in a direction unlike anything the world had heard before. Now Sony Masterworks celebrates these musical visionaries ...
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Don’t be afraid of color says this Japanese makeup artist
SADA, Nars International lead makeup stylist backstage during 2013 Fashion Week Few imagined a boy from rural Japan would grow up to be a globetrotting makeup stylist save perhaps for Sadafumi Ito, Nars International's makeup stylist. Ito was recently in the country to launch the Nars 2013 Summer Collection. Sada contributed to the Nars backstage artistry team during New York Fashion Week, ...
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80-year-old Japanese man scales Everest sets record
KATMANDU--An 80-year-old Japanese climber reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain, his website and a Nepalese official ...
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World markets roiled by Nikkeis 7.3-percent dip
LONDON/HONG KONG--Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ...
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Birds Of Tokyo announce Cairns show with chance to win tickets
The ARIA Award-winning Perth five-piece are arguably Australia's hottest live rock outfit this year, enjoying a massive run of success off the back of their new album March Fires, which debuted at No. 1 in March and has produced the hit singles Lanterns and This Fire, alongside their latest effort When the Night Falls Quiet.Landing in Cairns and Townsville on the eve of their show at the ...
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The 4 hedge funders losing big in the Japan rout
There's one big winner, too. FORTUNE -- The "Abe Trade" just hit a major bump. Toward the end of last year, a number of large hedge funds began piling into Japan. Driving the bet was the country's new prime minister Shinzo Abe, who said he favored flooding Japan's markets with cash from its central bank in order to finally pull its economy out of its perpetual slump. ...
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Japan ETFs Vulnerable After Nikkei Topix Slide
ETFs tracking Japan, the world's third-largest economy, slumped Thursday in U.S. trade after a late-session slide sent Japanese shares tumbling to their worst one-day performance in more than two years during Thursday's Asian session. Japan's Nikkei 225 plunged 5.5% while the Topix Index slid 6.9% after HSBC's flash reading of China's Purchasing Managers' Index for ...
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IAEA Delivers Final Report to Japan After Initial Review of Plans to Decommission Fukushima Daiichi
Two IAEA experts examine recovery work on top of Unit 4 of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 17 April 2013 as part of a mission to review Japan's plans to decommission the facility. (Photo: G. ...
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Japanese 80 is oldest to scale Everest
NEVER TOOOLD The 80-year-old Japanese Yuichiro Miura (right), poses with his son, Gota, before he scaled Mt. Everest, five years after his first conquest of the world's highest peak. AP KATMANDU, Nepal--An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest--although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who ...
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Japan’s Nikkei Index Falls 7.3 for Several Reasons Europe and U.S. Indexes Dip after Japanese Nosedive JPMorgan Voters Keep CEO Dimon
YahooFinance ) The Japanese stock market’s single-largest, one-day loss since the 2011 tsunami featured a 7.3 percent plunge yesterday that was blamed on lower-than-expected Chinese manufacturing figures for April, the Federal Reserve's lack of a clear message on continuing quantitative easing and spiking Japanese bond prices.Elsewhere in the Far East, markets generally pulled back. ...
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Japan vice econmin Thursday Nikkei plunge a temporary adjustment
Thursday's plunge in Tokyo stock prices represents a short-term pullback from recent gains, not a sign of doubt in Japan's economic policies, a senior government official ...
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Osaka court accepts losing horse racing bets as expenses
Osaka District Court accepted a claim on Thursday that losses on betting on horse racing should be deductible from payouts to calculate taxable ...
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Japan rethinks cultural bias against working mothers
In Japan, with its aging population and shrinking birthrate, increased female participation in the workforce, or womeonmics as it's been dubbed, matters. In April Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made womenomics key to his future growth strategy, making proposals around tax incentives for working mothers, better daycare and an increase in female representation on executive boards. The employment ...
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Is Japan the new apple
Many big hedge fund investors have in recent years had a very hard time keeping up with the U.S. stock market and other financial benchmarks against which they are judged. The big market drop in Japan will probably make things even harder for some of ...
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Japan $314 Billion Rout Tests Topix Bulls Who Pushed Gain
drop in Japanese shares since the 2011 earthquake erased $314 billion in market value, shaking bulls who pushed the Topix Index to five-year highs and highlighting their vulnerability to shocks at home and abroad. This year's best performing major equity gauge plunged 6.9 percent in record volume yesterday after government bond yields rose to the highest levels in a year and Chinese ...
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European stocks slump in wake of Tokyo plunge
LONDON (AFP) - European stock markets slumped Thursday, with most indices dropping more than 2.0 percent after Tokyo shares plunged owing to weak Chinese data and signs that the US Federal Reserve may soon taper massive stimulus measures, analysts said.London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell 2.10 percent to 6,696.79 points, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index also dropped 2.10 ...
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Japan focuses on next big export
Smart grids are the way of the future, according to a Japanese consortium of seven companies that want to invest in the cities of the future and pave the way for the next big export to come out of Japan.
Japan is already one of the leading high-tech industries of the world, producing gadgets and appliances that are sold globally, from cars and microwaves to robots for use in surgery, space and mines. The country is a major manufacturing hub, there are Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and Nintendo appliances in homes across the globe and many of the world’s most famous export brands have their headquarters in Japan or were founded in Japan. Read more
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