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November 11, 2026
 

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The Nikkei 225 stock average is down 20% from its peak.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 6, 2026
Nikkei 225 falls 6% following AI-related declines on Wall Street
Concern is growing over tech investment after the Democratic Party’s resounding victory in the U.S. midterm elections.
The Bank of Japan battled deflation for years with ultralow rates.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 5, 2026
Bank of 今日吃瓜 2% inflation-target victory fails to impress
After more than a decade of waiting, the market takes the data point as just another number to crunch.
An artist's rendering of Mitsui Fudosan's British Library project, which will be completed in 2032
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2026
Mitsui Fudosan hopes to book gains and make mark with British Library project
The largest property development in Europe by a Japanese company is just a stone’s throw from the Harry Potter train station.
At its policy meeting in September, the Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25% from 1%, taking 今日吃瓜 borrowing costs to their highest level since 1995.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2026
BOJ holds rates steady and says inflation target has been reached
Consumer prices are now rising more than 2% a year, and in a way that suggests these gains are stable and sustainable.
At its policy meeting in September, the Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25% from 1%, taking 今日吃瓜 borrowing costs to the highest level since 1995.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 28, 2026
Bank of Japan unlikely to take rates higher this week
The market is betting against a back-to-back rate increase, but sees December as a real possibility.
The consumer price index excluding fresh food rose 2.1% in September from a year earlier, according to the internal affairs ministry.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 23, 2026
Japanese inflation breaks 2% for the first time this year
The September reading puts pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise rates by the end of the year.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at the Lower House budget committee session in parliament on Oct. 14.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 22, 2026
Takaichi now has to prove she’s no big spender in her second year in office
The prime minister will be under pressure as the bill starts to come due for big promises made.
A shinkansen bullet train arrives at Kumamoto Station on Oct. 9.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 16, 2026
Shinkansen helps Kyushu economy with fast connections and local development
A major transportation bottleneck was eliminated more than a decade ago when the line was fully completed.
The Nikkei 225 stock average started declining from the open after weakness in tech shares overnight in the United States.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2026
Nikkei 225 falls 5% on rate and AI concerns
The tech-stock rout started in the United States after a higher-than-expected inflation reading.
Rakuten Medical CEO Minami Maeda in an interview in Yokohama in August
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2026
Rakuten Medical eyes U.S. market for its novel idea to conquer cancer
The biotech startup’s treatment uses light to destroy target cells, offering patients a way to heal with minimal damage to healthy tissue.
Consumer prices in Tokyo rose the most since late 2025 as inflation remains a problem.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 2, 2026
Tokyo inflation hits 2.7% in September as some subsidies come to an end
The reading was above expectations and could increase the chances of a rate rise.
Large Japanese manufacturers have been able to pass on costs easier than smaller companies.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 1, 2026
Tankan shows rising sentiment at big manufacturers for sixth straight quarter
They have not been this optimistic about business conditions in eight years.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama insists that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is not a reflationist.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2026
Reflationists? Who, us? Heirs to Abenomics insist it’s a thing of the past.
The current administration argues it’s done with the policy prescription championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and is now taking a different approach.
NEC displays samples of submarine cables on Thursday at its headquarters in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2026
NEC building 1-petabit-capacity subsea cable for Meta
The Petal cable will help meet the growing data transmission needs of artificial intelligence companies.
Wall Street will seem closer to Tokyo after the biggest U.S. exchanges stay open almost around the clock from December.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 20, 2026
Buy SpaceX directly on Nasdaq as you eat lunch in Tokyo
U.S. exchanges will soon be open for business almost around the clock.
The Bank of Japan is under pressure to raise interest rates due to the weak yen and efforts by the United States to stop the currency's slide.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 18, 2026
Bank of Japan raises rates and offers mixed signals about next move higher
Two dovish dissents are balanced by statement with a mildly hawkish tilt.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is keeping her post after a Cabinet reshuffle.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 17, 2026
Takaichi maintains economy team, signaling stability in turbulent times
The Cabinet lineup is largely unchanged, with ministers key to keeping policy on track retained.
The market is focused on whether the Bank of Japan will raise rates again this year after the meeting this week.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 14, 2026
Rate increase baked in, attention turns to BOJ’s outlook and mood
The central bank’s policy board meets this week and will almost certainly take the uncollateralized overnight call rate to 1.25%.
The yen traded below ?155 to the dollar this week.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 11, 2026
Some analysts forecast the yen going to ?150 to the dollar, others not so sure
今日吃瓜 currency is being buffeted by many forces, and debate rages as to whether the tide has turned.
A monitor shows the yen exchange rate against the dollar in Tokyo's Nihonbashi area on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 8, 2026
Yen makes dash across ?153, raising possibility that trend has turned
The beleaguered currency has strengthened from ?160 in less than a week, taking the market by surprise.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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