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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 16, 2023
Tokyo stocks end at 33-year highs after BOJ keeps ultralow rates in place
The 225-issue Nikkei stock average ended up 220.59 points, or 0.66%, from Thursday at 33,706.08, its highest close since March 9, 1990, when Japan was experiencing an asset price bubble.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2023
It’s finally time to start buying into Japan again
Japanese stocks have been cheap for a long time, but they’re set to get less cheap from now on.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2023
Investors are putting big money into Japan again. Here’s why.
The Japanese stock market is up nearly 30% this year, far ahead of the S&P 500, as firms bet that changes in how companies are run might just finally last.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 13, 2023
Japan aims to raise female executive ratio to 30% in listed firms by 2030
The move comes as companies in the country lag behind the United States and Europe in promoting women to managerial positions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 11, 2023
Japan firms' share buybacks to reach record level in 2023: survey
Since the start of the year, stock buybacks worth ¥4.6 trillion have been announced as of May 16, SMBC Nikko Securities said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2023
Japan firms face more shareholder proposals
A record 90 publicly traded companies as of Wednesday had received 348 shareholder proposals during meetings this month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2023
Japan wants over 30% of executives at major firms to be women by 2030
Of firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime Market, 18.7% had no female board members as of the end of July 2022.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jun 2, 2023
Surging Nikkei offers hope for Japan
The surge of money into its stock markets is both a vote of confidence in Japan’s prospects as well as a reflection of concern about China’s future and other investor options.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 22, 2023
Hedge funds pushing for Japan returns get help from Tokyo exchange
The number of proposals submitted for this year’s shareholder meetings has jumped about 60% from the same time last year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
May 20, 2023
A $518 billion rally shows Japanese stocks are all the rage in 2023
Some of the world’s most famed investors are voicing a near consensus that Japan’s stock market is the place to be as its larger peers grapple with rising economic headwinds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
May 19, 2023
Japan stocks extend rally as Nikkei 225 hovers at 1990 high
The Nikkei stock index advanced as much as 1.2% to 30,924.57, putting the blue-chip gauge at the highest intraday level since August 1990.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 17, 2023
At three-decade high, Japan stocks expected to rally further 10% by year-end
Up more than 12% in 2023, the Topix is already among the best performing national equity gauges in Asia and is beating a broader regional index by more than 8 percentage points.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 7, 2023
TSE Prime section firms moving to Standard section
A shift to the lower section is believed to allow businesses to focus more on growth than meeting strict listing standards.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 3, 2023
Kabutocho, Japan’s Wall Street, evolves into new financial hub
While the flow of suit-wearing salarymen in the Tokyo district has been reduced to a trickle, the area has seen an increasing number of startups and younger visitors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 1, 2023
Japan activist group hails stock exchange reform as remedy for undervalued stocks
Investors say the move is a testament to the fact that firms can no longer brush aside stock underperformance and must end the practice of asset-hoarding.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2023
Less than 1% of top-listed firms on Tokyo bourse led by women
Japan is 'extremely slow compared with other countries' in promoting women to prominent positions, a professor specializing in labor economics at the University of Tokyo said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 27, 2023
Japan sets 30% target for female executives at big firms by 2030
Women represented only 11.4% of executives in major listed companies in Japan in 2022, according to a Cabinet Office survey, although the figure has been rising in recent years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2023
Rakuten Bank shares surge in Tokyo debut after IPO
The IPO was Japan's biggest in over four years, albeit muted by caution about a banking sector reeling from U.S. bank failures.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 20, 2023
Man Group shares Warren Buffett’s renewed optimism for Japanese stocks
Stocks in Japan are primed to outpace global peers this year as improving corporate-governance standards and the central bank’s potential policy normalization burnish the nation’s appeal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 18, 2023
TSE finally ramps up market reform one year after questionable restructuring
The Tokyo Stock Exchange finally appears to be ramping up its efforts to revamp the market, one year after its consolidation of market segments left investors feeling frustrated.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
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