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Japan on Thursday posted its 26th consecutive monthly trade deficit, with a sharply weaker yen failing to lift exports as the world’s No. 3 economy stalls. Despite narrowing marginally from a year earlier, Japan’s August trade shortfall underscored a mixed picture for exports to key markets including China and the ...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Stanley White

Japan logged a 948.5 billion yen ($8.8 million) trade deficit in August, the 26th straight month of red ink, as weak demand at home hit imports while exports also fell, the Finance ministry reported Thursday.

Finance ministers and central bank governors from Japan, China and South Korea will hold their first meeting in 28 months on Friday. The gathering had been held every May before 2013. That year the meeting was skipped due to Japan-China tensions over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, ...

Business leaders in the Kansai region have issued a warning to Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda that the yen’s slide to a six-year low is raising the cost of importing raw materials and fuel, which could spell trouble for the economy. Firms in the city of Osaka say the ...

Pioneer said it will sell its lucrative DJ-equipment business to U.S. private-equity firm KKR for $550 million, as the Japanese company continues its focus on in-car electronics.

Adding that decision would hinge on the strength of economic indicators for the current quarter

Looking for the third arrow IT IS crisis mode in the Kantei, the office of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister. A succession of awful data has pummelled his economic programme, which consists of three “arrows”: a radical monetary easing, a big fiscal stimulus and a series of structural reforms. On September ...

The chief of the International Monetary Fund believes Japan will be able to revitalize its economy enough to accommodate the next consumption tax hike and that the country should continue efforts to empower women. Christine Lagarde forecast that Japan’s economy is likely to return to expansion at a pace faster ...

  OSAKA\ nflash\ - Il Console Generale, Marco Lombardi, ha incontrato ieri il Presidente della Camera di Commercio di Osaka, Shigetaka Sato, con il quale ha avuto un colloquio principalmente incentrato sull'Expo di Milano del 2015 e sulla ricorrenza dei 35 anni di gemellaggio tra Milano ed Osaka. All’incontro era presente ...

  OSAKA\ nflash\ - Il Console Generale, Marco Lombardi, ha incontrato ieri il Presidente della Camera di Commercio di Osaka, Shigetaka Sato, con il quale ha avuto un colloquio principalmente incentrato sull'Expo di Milano del 2015 e sulla ricorrenza dei 35 anni di gemellaggio tra Milano ed Osaka. All’incontro era presente ...

Australia is urging Japan to further lower its tariffs on beef under a Pacific Rim free-trade initiative after Tokyo has agreed to substantially cut them under a two-way free-trade deal struck in April, negotiation sources said Tuesday. Australia, which became the first major farming country to conclude a free-trade agreement ...

Data for the current July-September quarter suggest any rebound in growth is likely to be modest

Official revision to data could prompt the government to think twice about an increase in the levy on consumption planned for next year

JAPAN’S economy contracted an annualised 7.1pc in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, instead of 6.8pc as previously estimated.

Japan's economy contracted at a larger than earlier estimated annual rate of 7.1 percent in April-June, the government said Monday.

Japan and the United States remained apart Friday over the issue of whether Japan can allow U.S. automakers more access to the domestic market under an envisioned Pacific free trade deal, a Japanese official said. “We made some progress but reached no new agreement,” Takeo Mori, Japanese ambassador in charge ...

  BOLOGNA\ nflash\ - 120 imprese italiane del settore bio, 30 buyers australiani e giapponesi, per un totale di 2.000 incontri BtoB: questi i numeri della tappa in Italia, in occasione della Fiera SANA di Bologna, del Progetto "Eatalian Bio - Promozione del bioalimentare italiano in Australia e Giappone". Il progetto, ...

Seeking to enhance bilateral trade, business chambers of India and Japan have formed groups to focus on specific sectors like infrastructure, energy and skill development while working for removal of any bottlenecks by talking to the respective ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Japan will induce Japanese companies to invest more in India, and bilateral trade is likely to swell to USD 50 billion by 2019-2020, PHD Chamber of Commerce today said.