TOKYO, Oct 20 - The president of state-owned Japan Post, Yoshifumi Nishikawa, will resign, Japanese media said on Tuesday, as the government prepares to revise a privatisation scheme once applauded as a symbol of bold,...
TOKYO, Oct 18 - Japan wants to keep the size of its national budget for next fiscal year at 92 trillion yen ($1 trillion) by shedding 3 trillion yen from the amount requested by cabinet...
October 16 MetalBiz--Although Japan steel production increased for four-consecutive-month, steel consumption decreased constantly. According to statistics from JISF, carbon steel...
Microblogging site Twitter has launched a mobile version in Japan Thursday to expand its online service where other social networking sites, including Facebook and MySpace have failed to gain much ground. So far, Japanese is Twitter's sole foreign language platform. The company will develop the s...
* Large reserves mean China, Japan can support the dollar * Dollar's status as global reserve currency under doubt TOKYO, Oct 16 - Japan and China should cooperate with the United States to stabilise the...
TOKYO, Oct 16 - Japan's economy has been picking up but lacks the drive of domestic demand, the government said in a monthly report on Friday, giving a bleaker view than the Bank of Japan....
TOKYO, Oct 15 - Starbucks Coffee Japan raised its full-year profit forecast by 50 percent as cost...
TOKYO, Oct 15 - Starbucks Coffee Japan raised its full-year profit forecast by 50 percent as cost cutting and higher sales of locally developed drinks helped it boost margins even in the face of slumping...
TOKYO, Oct 15 - Japan Energy Corp, the nation's sixth-biggest oil refiner, said on Thursday it has notified the government that it has increased the capacity of the condensate splitter at its Kashima plant by...
TOKYO, Oct 14 - The following is the text of the Bank of Japan statement following a policy review: Statement on Monetary Policy 1. At the Monetary Policy Meeting held today, the Policy Board of...