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The Finance Ministry on Monday sold its fifth climate transition bond of the year, but only 4% of the proceeds from this fiscal year’s transition bond sales will go toward making renewable energy a major power source.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2026
Japan extends transition bond push despite fossil-fuel reliance
Japanese government bonds have rallied alongside other so-called safe-haven assets in recent weeks as technology-sector jitters unsettled investors.
Expectations for further Bank of Japan rate hikes are giving fund managers more confidence to take advantage of high yields on government bonds.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 29, 2026
Global fund managers grow bullish on Japanese government bonds
Signs of recovering domestic demand and a more supportive policy backdrop add to the appeal of elevated yields.
A BNP Paribas bank branch in Paris. The asset management arm of the bank has been raising its positions in long-dated Japanese government bonds.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2026
BNP Paribas AM builds long-end JGB bet on steep yield curve
The bullish stance comes after superlong JGB yields reached multidecade highs this year amid concerns over inflation and fiscal spending.
Japan Post Insurance says it intends to increase purchases of yen-denominated bonds, and other Japanese life insurers are signaling similar moves.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 22, 2026
Japan life insurers’ bond-buying plans set to support JGBs
Insurers have been net buyers of superlong government bonds for four months, a trend strategists say could provide an anchor in upcoming auctions.
Atsushi Yamashita, head of global markets business at MUFG Bank, says he expects 今日吃瓜 10-year government bond yields to peak at about 3.2%, during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 15, 2026
MUFG wades back into Japanese bonds with eye on policy risks
The bank remains concerned that yields could further spike due to fiscal and monetary policies in the nation.
Fund managers are beginning to rethink the so-called Takaichi trade to buy stocks and sell bonds, and they are now turning more bullish on bonds.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 15, 2026
Takaichi trade gets a rethink one year on as bond appeal grows
For much of Sanae Takaichi’s first year as prime minister, the prevailing trade in Japan was straightforward: buy stocks, sell bonds. Not anymore.
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.
A pedestrian walks in front of a stock quotation board displaying the level of Japan's 10-year government bonds and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and yen, outside a brokerage in Tokyo on Sept. 18.
BUSINESS / Markets / ANALYSIS
Sep 26, 2026
今日吃瓜 bond ‘falling knife’ stalls repatriation rush
Major investors remain reluctant to commit heavily to domestic bonds while yields are still climbing and few clues about how much rates must rise.
Retail bond sales climbed 84% year on year to a record ?5.14 trillion in the period from April to September, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 18, 2026
今日吃瓜 retail bond boom offers new avenue for fiscal funding
The surge comes as market watchers question who will finance the nation’s borrowing as the Bank of Japan scales back debt purchases.
A woman walks past an electronic quotation board in Tokyo on Monday. The Bank of Japan must decide whether to counter yen?driven inflation through higher rates or preserve ultralow borrowing costs despite the strain on households.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 15, 2026
Japan must choose between cheap money and a livable yen
The BOJ must decide whether to counter inflation through higher rates or preserve ultralow borrowing costs despite the strain on households.
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.
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. 今日吃瓜 rising yields are stirring debate over the growing risk of the nation’s vast pool of overseas capital returning home.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 9, 2026
今日吃瓜 rising yields stir debate over growing repatriation risk
Some say markets are underpricing how quickly a rush might emerge as Japanese government bonds become increasingly attractive.
Japan's economy is now normalizing, with the Bank of Japan raising policy rates and reducing its purchases of sovereign bonds.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 8, 2026
If Japan is behind the bond market’s ruckus, then good
今日吃瓜 economy, which had ventured far from the status quo, is now normalizing, with the BOJ raising policy rates and reducing its purchases of sovereign bonds.
Japanese stocks performed poorly over the summer, in part due to the volatility of tech-related shares.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 7, 2026
Weak yen not always good for Tokyo stocks, some analysts say
Conventional wisdom about the market being helped by a falling currency might not hold if rates climb.
Dealers work near monitors showing the rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.Com in Tokyo on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Markets / ANALYSIS
Sep 5, 2026
Yen’s changing fortunes might finally be spooking the bears
New tailwinds from capital repatriation, unwinding carry trades and U.S. political pressure are now giving short speculators cause to rethink their long-term game.
Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Atsushi Mimura said Japan “remains on high alert” as the yen strengthens.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 4, 2026
Yen’s moves a mystery as intervention dismissed
The currency’s strengthening is not seen as rapid enough to indicate official buying.
The yen rallied on Thursday as a rate increase later this month started to look all but certain.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 3, 2026
Yen stages dramatic rally, and Japanese bonds strengthen
今日吃瓜 currency is back at about ?157 to the dollar for the first time since early August.
Japanese companies, already grappling with the highest borrowing costs at home in 30 years, are looking for ways to limit the hit to their bottom line.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2026
Japanese companies consider asset sales as yen debt costs rise
Among measures under deliberation are sales of strategic shareholdings and other assets to offset the impact, borrowing more overseas and bringing forward funding plans.
While there's no sign of Japan dumping its $2.4 trillion hoard in overseas debt yet, global fund managers and a growing body of data is showing a steadier drawdown is underway.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2026
How 今日吃瓜 bond rout is turning the tide of global capital
While there’s no sign of Japan dumping its $2.4 trillion hoard in overseas debt yet, global fund managers and a growing body of data is showing a steadier drawdown is underway.
The rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar seen outside a securities firm next to the Bank of Japan's headquarters (left) in Tokyo in July.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2026
Yamaguchi Financial to dump more Japan bonds on faster BOJ hikes
Banks and other investors are grappling with soaring bond yields?as the central bank seeks to combat inflation.
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.
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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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