BUSINESS TIMES
 
JAPAN began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters.
The notes use printed patterns to generate holograms of the po...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The Nikkei stock index closed above the 40,000 threshold for the first time in three months, as exporters were boosted by the weaker yen hitting a fresh 37-year low in the upper 161 range versus the U.S. dollar.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended up 443.63 points, or 1.12 perc...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Tabelog, one of Japan’s largest restaurant search and reservation sites, has launched an online reservation service for visitors to Japan, which supports English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Korean.
With reservations available at over 35,000 restaurants, it is the large...

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STRAITS TIMES
 
Japan appointed a new currency czar on June 28 as the yen plumbed a 38-year low against the US dollar, heightening expectations of imminent market intervention by Tokyo to shore up the battered currency.
Mr Atsushi Mimura, a financial regulation veteran, replaces Mr Masato Kanda, ...

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ANTARA NEWS
 
The governments of Indonesia and Japan are committed to strengthening cooperation in the automotive industry, especially in vehicle electrification and development of environment-friendly fuels (biofuels) to achieve net zero emissions (NZE).
"The Indonesian Industry Ministry and the...

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INVESTING
 
Japan appointed a new top foreign exchange diplomat on Friday as the yen plumbed a 38-year low against the dollar, heightening expectations of imminent market intervention by Tokyo to shore up the battered currency.
Atsushi Mimura, a financial regulation veteran, replaces Masato Kanda...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The average price of rice has surged at supermarkets in Japan, data from the private and public sectors showed Wednesday, with pundits attributing it to a tight supply as a result of last summer's high temperatures and high demand from booming inbound tourism.
According to True Data...

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NHK
 
All five Japanese automakers with operations in China reported a fall in unit sales in May. The slump comes amid fierce price competition from Chinese firms and a rapid, market-wide shift to electric.
Toyota says it sold just 140,377 units. That's down 13.6 percent from a year earlier.
Hond...

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REUTERS
 
The Bank of Japan is dropping signals its quantitative tightening (QT) plan in July could be bigger than markets think, and may even be accompanied by an interest rate hike, as it steps up a steady retreat from its still-huge monetary stimulus.
Hawkish hints delivered over the past week...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
When Costco Wholesale opened its warehouse in a rural Japanese town not far from Tokyo last year offering hundreds of jobs at eye-popping pay, a nearby noodle shop chain took a drastic step: it hiked hourly wages by a third.
It was an almost unthinkable decision for Yamada-udon, whi...

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