Inquiry system launched to shut out gangsters from bank services
January 4, 2018
Tokyo- Japan put into service on Thursday a system allowing banks to make online inquiries to a police database about whether applicants for loans and other transactions are crime group members. The securities industry runs a similar system connected with
At 2018 start, Nikkei logs 1st close above 23,000 in 26 years
January 4, 2018
Tokyo- The benchmark Nikkei average staged a powerful rally on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, the first trading day of 2018, closing above 23,000 for the first time in 26 years on the back of an overnight advance in U.S.
JXTG Holdings to start gas retail biz in 2018
January 3, 2018
Tokyo- JXTG Holdings Inc. aims to start gas retailing in and around Tokyo in 2018 after Japan’s gas retail market was fully liberalized in April last year, President Yukio Uchida has said. “We want to make a start as early
JR Tokai resolved to open maglev line in 2027 as planned
January 3, 2018
Nagoya- Koei Tsuge, president of Central Japan Railway Co. , better known as JR Tokai, has voiced his resolve to open the company’s magnetic levitation ultrahigh-speed train line linking Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027 as scheduled. “We’ll keep placing top
Itochu eager to depart from old economy business model
January 3, 2018
Tokyo- Major Japanese trader Itochu Corp. is hurrying to expand in new business fields including the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, in order to survive the changing times, the company’s president, Masahiro Okafuji, has said. The existing business model
Britain looking to join TPP after leaving EU: FT
January 3, 2018
London- Britain has held informal talks about the idea of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal after leaving the European Union, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. “With these kind of plurilateral relationships, there doesn’t have to be any geographical
Couple rearrested over daughter’s freezing death
January 3, 2018
Osaka- A Japanese couple who have been arrested after the death of their 33-year-old daughter were served with fresh arrest warrants on Tuesday for allegedly confining her for at least 15 years illegally before she froze to death. The daughter,
Economy on track to renew postwar expansion record
January 3, 2018
Tokyo- Japan is believed to be on track to enjoy the longest economic growth since the end of World War II, economists say. The current expansion phase will break the current postwar record of six years and one month, from
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