Foreigners Buy Japan Stocks Alongside Record Futures Selling
Overseas investors dumped the most Japanese stocks on record last week while buying up cash equities amid growing uncertainty over whether a rally in shares will continue.
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Overseas investors dumped the most Japanese stocks on record last week while buying up cash equities amid growing uncertainty over whether a rally in shares will continue.
New York, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japanese alcoholic beverage makers have entered the growing U.S. market for ready-to-drink, or RTD, products, including those known as "can chuhi" in Japan but not canned beer. While U.S. consumers are steering away from alcohol amid the soaring cost of living and rising health consciousness, RTD beverages are increasing their presence. According to British ...
Japan’s household spending fell for a ninth month even as wages continued to climb, showing consumers remain cautious as persistent inflation squeezes purchasing power.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will support a Japanese initiative to bolster oil supplies in Southeast Asia after war-driven disruptions heightened concerns over energy security.
Japan’s 30-year government bond auction drew stronger demand than its 12-month average as elevated yields attracted investors.
Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi touted her plan to cut the consumption tax on food and pay support payments to workers at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, on Wednesday. The combination of a consumption tax reduction and support payments is "the best in light of sufficiency and promptness" to ease the impac...
Washington, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva expressed concern over soaring long-term interest rates in Japan and the United States in a speech in Singapore on Wednesday. Georgieva described recent interest rate hikes by the central banks in Japan, the United States and Europe as "highly appropriate" in the speech ahead of the annual me...
New Delhi, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)--India is expected to overtake Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in nominal terms by the end of next March, V. Anantha Nageswaran, chief economic adviser to the Indian government, has said. In a recent interview with Jiji Press, Nageswaran predicted that India will rank behind the United States, China and Germany in global nominal gross domestic produ...
A Citigroup Inc. strategist sees Japanese government bond yields nearing their peaks and expects financial institutions to step up investments once the fiscal policy outlook becomes clearer.
Osaka, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)--Major Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co. has said that it will acquire U.S. biopharmaceutical company IntraBio Inc. for 2 billion dollars as part of efforts to strengthen its rare disease drug business. Shionogi will buy all outstanding shares in the Austin, Texas-based company, according to an announcement Monday. Founded in 2015, IntraBio develops and commerci...
Japan and Australia have agreed to establish an annual finance ministers’ dialogue aimed at deepening cooperation in financial and economic policy, as well as strengthening bilateral collaboration on economic security. Under a memorandum of understanding signed on Monday that is effective for five years, the two countries’ finance ministers will meet regularly to promote cooperation across a broad range of economic themes. “Recognising that Japan and Australia’s economic and security...
Japan should continue to rely on the Middle East for the bulk of its crude as that’s cost-effective, processor Taiyo Oil Co. said, pushing back against a government drive to diversify triggered by the US-Iran war.
Five years ago, Sarah and her husband were optimistic about Japan’s economic future and were expanding their small businesses across several sectors. Today, that optimism has been replaced by concern over a sense of hostility towards two hard-working foreigners who feel they have contributed to the society that they have worked hard to fit into. New regulations that took effect on Thursday mean the two Britons, who have been in Japan for more than 10 years, now face significantly higher costs...
Rio Times · Asia Intelligence Brief October 1, 2026 — South Korea posts record exports of US$120.9 billion on US$60.3 billion of chips; Lee Jae Myung offers the North talks and promises nuclear submarines; Japan's Tankan hits an eight-year high; India's stocks fall an eighth straight week; Thailand's floods close Toyota plants; Pakistan lines Islamabad with containers ahead of a 4 October march. The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Thursday, October 1, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Tokyo, Sept. 30 (Jiji Press)--Toys "R" Us plans to stop operating stores in Japan, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Toys "R" Us-Japan Ltd., based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, currently runs a total of some 150 Toys "R" Us toy stores and Babies "R" Us baby goods stores in the country. The Japanese operations, including the stores, are expected to be acquired...
Tokyo, Sept. 30 (Jiji Press)--The number of food items in Japan whose prices have been raised or are set to be raised this year stands at 20,187, surpassing 20,000 for two years in a row, a survey by Teikoku Databank Ltd. showed Wednesday. Food makers in the country plan to raise prices for 3,153 items in October, a slight decrease from 3,161 items a year before, according to the Japanese r...
Japan’s two-year government bond auction Wednesday saw stronger demand than the 12-month average as elevated yields underpinned buying.
Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae and her Mongolian counterpart, Nyam-Osor Uchral, agreed Tuesday that Japan will provide yen loans to support the expansion of Chinggis Khaan International Airport in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. The loans are expected to total around 150 billion yen, sources familiar with the matter said. The visit marked Uchra...
Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--October will see price changes in products and services that are part of people's daily lives in Japan, including a tax cut on beer and levy hikes on quasi-beer and heat-not-burn tobacco products. Households will likely feel an increased financial burden, given that price hikes will also hit a wide range of food products, Japan Post Co.'s Yu-Pack parcel deliver...
Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--Japan's total population, including foreign residents, was 122,972,528 as of Oct. 1, 2025, shrinking by 3,173,571, or 2.5 pct, from five years earlier, census data released by the internal affairs ministry showed Tuesday. This was the third consecutive decline in the quinquennial survey that dates back to 1920. The number of foreign residents climbed by 1,09...
Last year, Japan was flooding its rice market with emergency stockpiles in a bid to mollify voters angered by the soaring price of its staple grain. Now, it has the opposite problem: a glut. That is welcome news for shoppers, but the whiplash is hurting people like Hiroshi Asano, 59, who farms a relatively large 38 hectares (93 acres) of rice fields in Chiba, close to Tokyo. He expects to make a loss this year, and he is worried smaller-scale farmers would not be able to survive. “I’ve been...
Activist investor Flashlight Capital Partners urged Japan’s Secom Co. to roughly double its interest in South Korea’s S-1 Corp. and Taiwan Secom Co., roping in a new party after its earlier bid to acquire an S-1 stake was rejected.
Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)--Major Japanese beer companies are revamping flagship products and reclassifying quasi-beer items as beer as they prepare for intensifying competition following Thursday's unification of liquor taxes on beer and related products. As the tax rate change will narrow the price differences among beer, "happoshu" quasi-beer products and beer-like beverages known as th...
Warburg Pincus CEO, Jeffrey Perlman, says Japan is undergoing structural changes that are making the country more attractive to global private equity firms. He spoke exclusively on Bloomberg's Insight with Haslinda Amin about the opportunities emerging in the Japanese market. (Source: Bloomberg)
Takuji Aida, Chief Japan Economist at Credit Agricole and an economic advisor to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, says any expansion of Japan’s defense spending will likely be spread over many years and shouldn’t become a source of significant market anxiety in any single year. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)
Japan’s two-year government bond yield is closing in on the key 2% threshold as investors ramp up bets on further Bank of Japan rate hikes.
Tokyo, Sept. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday she and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reaffirmed at their online meeting the same day that "the undervaluation of the yen is a problem." Katayama revealed this in talks with reporters after the virtual meeting. "We exchanged views on financial market developments," she also said. "We also reconfi...