Japan
FFC develop Japanese market for mango exports
TOKYO: Japan has a huge market for Pakistani mangoes. Fauji Fertilizer Company (FFC) Chief Executive Lt Gen (retd) Shafqaat Ahmed...
Overall bank lending in Japan up 2.7% on year in August
TOKYO: The total value of overall bank lending in Japan was up 2.7 percent on year in August, the Bank...
Nestle Japan says H1 profit for fiscal 2015 up 11.3%
TOKYO: Nestle Japan said Monday its first-half profit for fiscal 2015 was up 11.3% over the same period last year,...
Japan’s economy contracted 1.2% annual rate in April-June quarter
TOKYO: Japan's economy contracted at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, according to revised data Tuesday, as...
Japan’s composite economic index fall in July for first time in 2 months
TOKYO: Japan’s key composite index of economic indicators, reflecting the current state of the economy, fell in July for the...
MUFJ sale shares in Japan Post group at banking unit
TOKYO: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc will sell shares in the Japan Post Holdings (IPO-JAPP.T) group at its banking unit,...
Toshiba suffers annual net loss of $318m
TOKYO: Japan's Toshiba Corp, reeling from an accounting scandal, reported a net loss of 37.8 billion yen ($318 million) for...
Japan may exempt food, beverages from intended increase in sales tax
TOKYO: Japan may exempt some food and beverages from a planned increase in the sales tax, government sources said. Prime Minister...
Japan, Iran start talks next week to bilateral investment treaty
TOKYO: Japan and Iran will start talks next week to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty, as Washington moves to ease...
Japan manufacturing business activity rises in august
TOKYO: Japan continues to rise despite the global gloom. The iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ) dipped 4.5% at the close...
Vietnam exports 3.05MT of cassava to Japan in first 8 months of 2015
HANOI: The country exported 3.05 million tonnes of cassava, worth US$951 million, in the first eight months of the year....
Australian beef winning increasing share of Japanese market
TOKYO: Australian beef is winning an increasing share of the Japanese market, thanks to a trade agreement implemented this year,...
Japanese shares fall 3% on stronger yen
TOKYO: Japanese shares fell as much as 3% on Friday, touching a seven-month low, as the yen strengthened against the...
Nissan announces to invest £100m in UK plant to build new Juke model
TOKYO: Japanese carmaker Nissan has announced it will invest £100m in its UK plant to build the new Juke model. The...
Japan banks reports losing 1,544 mln yen in H1 of 2015
TOKYO: Banks in Japan reported losing 1,544 million yen ($12.8 million) in the first half of 2015 to online fraudsters...
Japan stocks hits record high of foreign net selling
TOKYO: Net selling of Japanese cash and futures stocks by foreign investors during last week hit a record high as...
Japan set to recover blue mountain coffee market
TOKYO: Rising levels of coffee consumption in Japan mark the end of a post-recession slump in which that nation cut...
Japanese bank Resona asset unit seeks to manage $10.8b by 2021
TOKYO: Japanese bank Resona Holdings Inc.’s new asset management unit, which opens for business on Sept. 16, expects to be...
Japan, UAE bilateral trade for H1 of 2015
TOKYO: Decline in crude oil price drags down value of Japan – UAE trade in 2015. Results of the first-half...
Japan business investment up 5.6% in April-June
TOKYO: Capital spending by firms rose 5.6 percent from a year earlier in the April-June period for the ninth straight...
