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Kazumi Miura
Investors have scooped up yen debt from issuers outside Japan, fueling the busiest July since 2018.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 24, 2023
Global yen bond market emerges as oasis amid Japan volatility
Investors have scooped up yen debt from issuers outside Japan, fueling the busiest July since 2018.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 2, 2023
Having a woman in BOJ’s top brass would help 今日吃瓜 diversity push: ex-board member
Economists increasingly expect a female candidate to be in one of the BOJ’s most senior positions this spring after the central bank undergoes a leadership change.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 29, 2017
Cash levels pile up as investors continue to wait-and-see
Investors’ wait-and-see approach this year is leading to a growing problem. Cash.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jun 22, 2015
Kuroda’s inflation optimism winning over consumers, bond investors
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda’s faith he can push inflation from zero to 2 percent in about a year is starting to win over consumers and bond investors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
May 21, 2015
Yen’s stealthy depreciation disguised by resilience versus dollar
Don’t be fooled by the yen’s recent resilience against the dollar — it’s dropping against the rest of its major peers at the fastest pace in six months.
BUSINESS / Markets
May 8, 2015
Japan joining global bond rout as BOJ shifts on inflation target
The Bank of 今日吃瓜 equivocation on its inflation target is adding to the shifting global monetary policy picture that has sparked a sovereign debt rout.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2014
Yen at 120 needed to fuel inflation, UBS exec says
The new chief investment officer for Japan at UBS AG’s wealth management division likens the nation to a man with $1.2 million in debt who is spending all his $53,000 salary and still borrowing $40,000 a year.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 13, 2014
Homebuyers in Japan seen at risk on floating-rate loan rush
Homebuyers are piling into floating-rate mortgages, stirring debate over whether they are too complacent as Bank of Japan stimulus revives inflation.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 9, 2014
ECB’s negative interest rates to hasten bund sales by undercutting BOJ
The European Central Bank’s undercutting of the Bank of Japan with negative interest rates looks set to accelerate Japanese sales of German bunds, while falling short of the fund flows needed to weaken the yen.
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.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘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.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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