Financial Insights That Matter Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Japan is set to respond to the highest rice prices on record by making it easier to tap its stockpile of the grain at the heart of the nationâs […]
Financial Insights That Matter Extra budget, key rate cut needed to boost economy: experts By Lee Kyung-min Korea registered a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) estimate of $36,024 for last year, outstripping Japan and Taiwan, data from the finance ministry and central bank showed Sunday. Underpinning the seemingly robust performance was improvement in trade […]
Financial Insights That Matter Japan has expressed significant concern over the potential global economic repercussions of the sweeping tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, targeting major trading partners such as Canada, Mexico, and China. In an appearance on Fuji TV Sunday, Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato voiced worries about how these tariffs could disrupt […]
Financial Insights That Matter Japan intends to closely monitor the impact of U.S. President Donald Trumpâs new tariffs on the yen and is worried about the international fallout on trade, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said. “We need to carefully see how the exchange rate and other factors will be affected and what form U.S. monetary […]
Financial Insights That Matter For decades, Japanâs corporate giants relied on in-house R&D to drive innovation, while startups exited primarily via IPOs. But with domestic market stagnation, an aging workforce, and intensifying global competition, âJapan Inc.â is pivoting toward acquiring startups to drive growth. Jesper Koll, a board director of the Okinawa Institute for Science […]
Financial Insights That Matter TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold talks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son on Monday, the Japanese government said on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week that OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle will form a joint venture and invest up to […]
Financial Insights That Matter Tweet Japanese January 29, 2025 Financial Services Agency On January 28, 2025, the Japan-Switzerland Financial Dialogue was held in Bern by the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Ministry of Finance (MOF), State Secretariat for International Finance, Federal Department of Finance (SIF), and Swiss Finacial Markets Supervisory Authority (FINMA). In the dialogue, participants exchanged views on […]
Financial Insights That Matter By Tim Kelly, Yukico Tood TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is considering offering support for a $44 billion gas pipeline in Alaska as it seeks to court U.S. President Donald Trump and forestall potential trade friction, according to three officials familiar with the matter. Officials in Tokyo expect Trump may raise the […]
Financial Insights That Matter AUD/USD continues to slip AUD/USD’s slide through the January tentative support line at $0.6248, now because of inverse polarity a resistance line, has the mid-December low at $0.6199 in its sights. Only if last week’s high at $0.6330 were bettered, would a medium-term bullish trend reversal be in the making. AUD/USD […]
Financial Insights That Matter Newsfrom Japan Society Jan 30, 2025 21:20 (JST) Osaka, Jan. 30 (Jiji Press)–Osaka High Court on Thursday revoked the Finance Ministry’s decision not to disclose documents related to a document-tampering scandal that led to the suicide of a ministry official. Presiding Judge Kenji Maki overturned an Osaka District Court ruling that […]