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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Nov 28, 2022
10 years in making, Tohoku regional banks taking on new challenges
Human resource development and smartphone apps are among the initiatives being adopted by financial institutions in the region.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 24, 2022
Mitsubishi UFJ to buy two Asia units of Home Credit for $620 million
The deal comes as Japan's largest lender aims to beef up its business in Asia to tap growth in consumption in emerging markets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 24, 2022
Bankers pour cold water on red hot coal
Western banks are under pressure from shareholders to show action on climate change, so coal executives are having to scout for alternative funding.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2022
As recession looms, British business sends out lending SOS
Banks are increasingly nervous about extending credit to small companies, as rising costs put the business case of lending to such companies under unprecedented strain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 15, 2022
Japan’s megabanks plan $2.5 billion buybacks
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group both said they will buy back shares while Mizuho Financial Group upped a dividend forecast.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2022
U.S. asks banks to maintain ties with Russia, despite frustration in Congress
The quiet effort is part of the administration's push to minimize adverse impacts of the sanctions regime designed to punish Russia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 7, 2022
Fate of Toshiba management causing friction for banks in buyout plan
There is concern preferred bidder JIP's plan to retain Toshiba CEO Taro Shimada and his team could impede the reorganization needed to put the firm on the road to recovery.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 2, 2022
Japan asks if it’s better to flip burgers than work at a megabank
The weak yen makes the wages of Japan's long-suffering workers seem absurdly low.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 24, 2022
Japan’s banks break with Wall Street by embracing hybrid work
The nation's three largest lenders said they are allowing more flexibility, eschewing a minimum number of office days per week, as experienced elsewhere.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2022
Banks try quiet quitting on net-zero goals
Some big banks seem worried they jumped on the zero emissions bandwagon too soon, especially as oil and gas companies have experienced a market resurgence.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 11, 2022
Bernanke and two academics win Nobel in economics for work on banks’ role in crises
Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke and economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig were awarded for their influential work on the relationship between banks and economic turmoil.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2022
Sumitomo Mitsui punished for market-rigging at brokerage arm
The financial watchdog also ordered SMBC Nikko to suspend operations related to block offers for three months, in a fresh blow to the company's reputation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2022
Watchdog recommends punishment for SMBC Nikko over alleged manipulation
The measures typically entail temporary business suspensions or orders to improve internal controls, among other things.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 24, 2022
SMBC Nikko to face administrative penalties over stock manipulation
Based on the recommendation, the Financial Services Agency is expected to impose penalties on the firm, including an order for the company to suspend part of its operations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 23, 2022
It’s every nation for itself as dollar batters global currencies
Japan has become the latest major country to step directly into the foreign-exchange fray, joining nations from India to Chile that have been tapping their dollar stockpiles.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 21, 2022
ADB cuts developing Asia growth view on slowing China expansion
Sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks and new lockdowns have weakened China's growth, which the ADB said will be slower than the rest of developing Asia for the first time in more than three decades.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2022
Wall Street push by Japan banks under scrutiny as rates rise
Faced with ultralow interest rates and tepid loan demand at home, banks in Japan have been ramping up corporate lending and bond underwriting overseas.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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