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Nikkei recoups some of Thursdays 7.3 percent dive bull run seen intact
Reuters © Members of the media crowd around passers-by walking in front of an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Toru ...
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Revived Japan can be a force for good says its prime minister
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an impassioned defence last night of his economic policies, arguing that a revived Japan can and will be a force for good in the world. It will be better poised to contribute to Asia's economic dynamism and to ensure the rule of law in the international arena, he contended. Speaking to a room of visiting foreign dignitaries - including Prime ...
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Japan China must put aside differences
Japan and China must put aside their differences over territorial claims and consider their relations from a broader perspective, experts said at an international conference in Tokyo to discuss the future of Asia. Political tensions between the two biggest economies in north- east Asia over the ownership of the Senkaku islands (Diaoyu to the Chinese) and other historical issues dominated much ...
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RUBBER-Tokyo futures edge higher but demand concerns weigh
TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Tokyo rubber futures edged up only slightly on Friday following a big plunge the previous day and were poised to fall more than 3 percent on the week, as weak manufacturing data from China and the United States spurred worries about demand. FUNDAMENTALS * The benchmark Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) rubber contract, for October delivery , was trading 0.6 ...
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Tokyo stocks surge in morning trade
Tokyo stocks surged Friday morning, staging a rebound from the previous day's plunge, the worst one-day drop for the benchmark Nikkei index since Japan's March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. The Nikkei, which on Thursday tumbled 7.3 percent, was 2.97 percent, or 429.74 points, higher to 14,916.77 by 10:15 am local time (0115 GMT), after jumping more than three percent in the first few ...
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Japan stocks rebound after slump Nikkei up 3.2
+2.78% climbing 3.2% after diving 7.3% in the previous session, prompted by some relief buying amid expectations that the rally that began late last year may have further to go. The broader ...
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ASIA MARKETS Japan Stocks Recover Modestly After Steep Sell-off
HONG KONG – Japanese stocks jumped Friday to stage a modest recovery, with relief buying emerging after the extreme losses they suffered the previous day, amid expectations that the rally that began late last year may have further to go.The Nikkei Stock Average climbed 3% after diving 7.3% in the previous session, while the broader Topix advanced 2.6% after Thursday's 6.9% ...
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Tokyo Skytree is illuminated with 12 patterns of light to celebrate its first anniversary in Tokyos Sumida Ward on May 22.
On a bridge in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, many photographers take pictures of memorial illumination on Tokyo Skytree for the first anniversary of its opening on May 22. (Satoru ...
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Hague convention still doesnt offer clear-cut answers
U.S. Ambassador John Roos meets with Katsuyuki Kawai, the chairman of the Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Feb. 14, calling for Japan's early ratification of the the Hague convention. (Asahi Shimbun file ...
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Japan stocks plunge more than 7 percent triggering falls across global markets
Global markets fall after weak Chinese manufacturing data and mixed messages from the Fed about when it will wind down its asset-buying ...
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Stocks in Japan rebound
earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster shook Japan's economy. The sharp plunge this week spooked investors in China and Europe, leading to sizable stock market losses around the globe. In the United States, stocks clawed back from steep losses. Thursday's sell-off was triggered ...
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Tokyo stocks surge more than three percent
Tokyo stocks surged more than three percent in opening trade on Friday, staging a rebound from the previous day's seven-percent dive. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index, which on Thursday tumbled 7.3 percent, its worst percentage loss since the March 2011 tsunami disaster, gained 3.26 percent, or 472.28 points, to 14,956.26 in the first few minutes of trading. The higher opening came after US ...
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Market eyeing Nikkei for signals risk-sentiment recovered in overnight trade
There was a massive 8% intraday reversal yesterday in the Nikkei and this led to a huge clean-out in risk trades like AUD/JPY in particular. The question which will be answered today in the Tokyo stock-market is whether the Nikkei selling was purely technical or whether a reversal is underway. I'd expect the FX market to get most of its leads from the Nikkei. Today's risk events ...
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Historians tour Takeshima hit Japan
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian stocks shaky Nikkei still seen vulnerable
Fri May 24, 2013 12:22am EDT * Nikkei down 0.6 pct, erases earlier gains * Asian stocks outside Japan dip to 1-month lows * Yen rises vs USD and euro as Nikkei trims gains By Ian Chua SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks turned negative on Friday and the yen reversed early losses, keeping intact worries that the Nikkei's largest one-day drop in two years may be the start of a bigger ...
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Japans Own Worst Enemy - By Tobias Harris
Obama to redouble efforts to shutter Gitmo, reduce drone strikes; Rosa Brooks wants POTUS in her classroom; Horror in the U.K.; Is Jon Stewart goading the WH on the VA?; Hagel: build a better software program; and a little bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Fleeting Japan scare proves its all about the Fed
'Euro crisis doesn't matter. Japan doesn't matter. China doesn't matter' NEW YORK -- Thursday had all the makings of an ugly, ugly day on Wall Street. Japan's stock market suffered a mini-crash, plunging more than 7%. A reading on China manufacturing came in soft, sending shivers down the spines of investors already concerned that weak global growth will weaken ...
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Tokyo’s Stock Sel-Off Isn’t a Repudiation of Abenomics
sell-off was no great cause for concern. The 7.3 percent drop in the Nikkei 225 Stock Average on May 23 was the steepest one-day decline since the earthquake in the spring of 2011. Amari is right: Japanese policy has changed for the better, and the drop in stock prices isn't a repudiation. But it is a reminder that nervous markets are always capable of springing surprises and that ...
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Yen higher after Japan stocks sell-off
THE yen has gained amid a sharp sell-off of Japanese stocks while the US dollar has fallen against the euro after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke cautioned not to expect policy tightening at least for a few ...
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Analyst Suggests Caution on Popular Japan ETF
ETFs focused on the world's third-largest economy are tumbling today. That group includes the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund ...
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Japan to host world conference on disaster risk reduction next year - UN
Print 23 May 2013 – Japan will host the world conference slated to be held next year at which countries will adopt the successor to the current global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts, it was announced today at a United Nation forum on the issue that wrapped up in Geneva. The 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) came out of the world conference held in Kobe, Hyogo, ...
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Talking Japan the U.S. and the economy at the Duquesne Club
Matthew Goodman, William E. Simon Chair of Political Economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, discusses the economies of the U.S., Japan and China at the Duquesne Club. To frame his discussion about the economies of the United States, Japan and China, Matthew Goodman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted that on Thursday morning U.S. media were ...
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Japans weak currency means tourism
The number of tourists coming to Japan dropped dramatically after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. But between the weak currency and fading memories of the disaster, tourism saw a record high last ...
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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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