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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday, as investors were encouraged by gains on Wall Street and brisk corporate results reported recently by Japanese companies. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged up 0.35 percent, or 77.97 points, to 22,617.09 in early trade while the broader Topix index was up 0.21 percent, or 3.68 points, at 1,797.76. Japanese shares are being boosted “by the expanding global economy and good earnings reports by companies […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Sexual harassment of women should “never be tolerated”, Ivanka Trump told an audience in Tokyo on Friday, calling for women to be treated with greater respect at work. The speech came as global headlines are dominated by sexual harassment claims against prominent men in entertainment and politics. The new round of claims has revived memories of her father Donald Trump’s boasts about groping women, which emerged during the US presidential campaign. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo shares opened higher on Wednesday, tracking gains on Wall Street with a weaker yen supporting the market, while Sony was set to rally after forecasting record annual profits. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged up 0.57 percent, or 126.46 points, to 22,138.07 in early trade while the broader Topix index was up 0.54 percent, or 9.47 points, at 1,775.43. © Agence France-Presse
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian stocks markets were largely flat in early trade on Monday as investors braced for key earnings reports and US President Donald Trump’s announcement of the new Federal Reserve chair. Hong Kong and Tokyo shed early gains after traders — boosted by strong US growth data at the back end of last week — had initially followed Wall Street upward, while the Shanghai exchange was more sharply down. Wall Street […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday on the back of gains on Wall Street and with hundreds of Japanese firms reporting earnings this week, including Nintendo and Sony. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.35 percent, or 76.02 points, to 22,084.47 in early trade, while the broader Topix index was little changed, inching up 1.22 points to 1,772.27. “The Japanese market will likely remain solid this week as there is a […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks opened higher on Friday, boosted by exporters and banks as the yen fell against the dollar on hopes for US President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated tax cut. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.59 percent, or 129.16, to 21,868.94 in early trade, while the broader Topix index was up 0.44 percent, or 7.69 points, at 1,761.59. “Japanese stocks will test higher prices as investors cheer a rebound in the New […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks opened higher Wednesday, with the benchmark index extending the longest winning streak in its nearly 70-year history as Japan kicked off its latest corporate earnings season. The Nikkei 225 rose 0.37 percent, or 80.78 points, to 21,885.95 in early trade, while the broader Topix index gained 0.34 percent, or 5.99 points, to 1,762.91. © Agence France-Presse
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s long-held dream to change the pacifist constitution got a big boost this weekend as his conservative coalition won a crucial two-thirds majority in a snap election. Nationalists like Abe dismiss the constitution as a humiliating relic imposed by US occupiers after Japan’s defeat in World War II, while North Korea’s recent firing of two missiles over the country in less than a month has focused minds on security. […]
by Alastair HIMMER Agence France-Presse KOSHIGAYA, Japan (AFP) – An elderly woman hunched over a cane stares intently as Japanese political hopeful Asami Miwa greets locals in the rural voting district the former flight attendant is contesting in Sunday’s election. Waving her white-gloved hands and bowing to potential voters in drizzly Saitama, an hour north of Tokyo, the 30-year-old Party of Hope candidate is a welcome splash of color in a sepia-tinged world dominated by men in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The popular governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, Friday unveiled her policy platform to unseat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, pledging to scrap nuclear power by 2030 and freeze a planned tax hike. Koike, who has shaken up the sleepy world of Japanese politics with her new Party of Hope, aims to distinguish herself from Abe with her vow to phase out nuclear power in Japan, still haunted by the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. […]
The Japanese government on Tuesday (October 3) said it is unaware of any information at this point corroborating Las Vegas sheriffs comments earlier that the long-time girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock is in Tokyo. Marilou Danley, 62, is believed to be an Australian citizen born in the Philippines and possibly visiting relatives in the Philippines at the time of the shooting, though U.S. authorities now believe she could be in Tokyo. U.S. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index rose past 20,000 for the first time in six weeks on Tuesday after Wall Street edged up to a new record close and a weak yen lifted exporters. The bellwether Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.12 percent, or 223.25 points, to 20,132.75 in early trade, breaching the barrier of 20,000 for the first time since early August. The broader Topix index was up 1.01 percent, or 16.58 points, […]
