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BANKS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 23, 2015
Regional lenders want to work with Japan Post Bank, on one condition
As Japan Post Bank Co. prepares for an initial public offering and poses increased competition to regional banks, they are willing to do business with the state-owned company — on one condition.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 9, 2015
SMBC Nikko aims to hire rare experts to manage riskier bank debt
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. is seeking as many as six new hires for a team specializing in underwriting bonds issued by banks that would insulate taxpayers from costs if the lenders later fail.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 6, 2015
Despite uncertain future, Greek referendum voters resoundingly reject bailout terms
Having squarely rejected the terms of new financial aid for their cash-strapped country, Greece wakes up to an uncertain future on Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 2, 2015
Mega-banks plan riskier bond sales up to ¥4 trillion
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. plan to bolster their balance sheets by introducing bonds that offer investors enhanced returns at greater risk.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2015
Greece may find it easier to close banks than reopen them
Capital controls imposed in Greece are likely to stay in place for months and its banks may need billions of euros of new capital or even face nationalization under a lengthy financial rebuilding, industry sources said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 30, 2015
Greek default fears send Dow plunging; volatility spikes
U.S. stocks extended their losses in heavy trading on Monday after a collapse in Greek bailout talks intensified fears that the country could be the first to exit the eurozone.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2015
57 countries set to sign on to China-backed investment bank AIIB
One of China's biggest foreign policy successes ever will take shape Monday when delegates from 57 countries sign an agreement on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 22, 2015
Norinchukin, top lender to farmers, to park more of its ¥64 trillion overseas
Norinchukin Bank, the farm lender with most of its money invested overseas, says it sees little choice but to put additional funds into foreign assets this year even as U.S. debt markets become more volatile.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 22, 2015
Banks did too little to police FIFA transactions, says global body
A global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies said that financial institutions have not done enough to police suspicious financial activity by officials at soccer's global governing body FIFA, and cautioned banks to step up scrutiny.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2015
China to extend economic diplomacy to EU infrastructure fund
China will pledge a multibillion-dollar investment in Europe's new infrastructure fund at a summit on June 29 in Brussels, according to a draft communique seen by Reuters — Beijing's latest round of checkbook diplomacy to win greater influence.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2015
Aim for green infrastructure expansion in Asia
Infrastructure projects in Asia must be accompanied by protective safeguards to avoid damaging the environment, climate and communities — and slowing economic growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 4, 2015
What next for ShinGinko Tokyo?
News that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is apparently planning to withdraw from managing ShinGinko Tokyo Ltd. has opened old wounds for residents who just seven years earlier saw their tax money poured into resuscitating the bank that was supposed to become a savior of small businesses.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 27, 2015
The mysterious appeal of bras, cleavage and singing teenagers in 'Pitch Perfect'
'Pitch Perfect" is a lively, likable movie. I'm not saying that out of a fear of sounding like a curmudgeonly granny who has to Google "peach slapped" to know what it means — but there's always that risk.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 27, 2015
MUFG record profit masks vanishing loan earnings in Japan
Record profits at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and at least 26 of the nation's banks mask vanishing returns on lending in Japan that's spurring them to venture 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.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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