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Listed Japan firms log 11% quarterly profit drop

Listed Japan firms log 11% quarterly profit drop

The decreases comes as tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump weighed he...

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Dentsu plans to cut overseas workforce by about 3,400 to trim costs

Dentsu plans to cut overseas workforce by about 3,400 t...

The advertising agency expects to incur an operating loss of ¥3.5 billion this y...

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Meta AI rules let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids and offer false info

Meta AI rules let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids a...

Meta's standards don’t necessarily reflect "ideal or even preferable” generative...

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Japan growth beats forecasts, boosting rate-hike case for BOJ

Japan growth beats forecasts, boosting rate-hike case f...

Better-than-expected economic growth has given Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba som...

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Japan brokers seek to identify hackers after fraud surges

Japan brokers seek to identify hackers after fraud surges

Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to...

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Investors seek bigger payouts from Japanese tech firms’ cash hoard

Investors seek bigger payouts from Japanese tech firms’...

Growth companies that had been getting a free pass amid the Tokyo Stock Exchange...

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Welcoming foreign residents benefits Japan, three quarters of economists say

Welcoming foreign residents benefits Japan, three quart...

Some highlighted the need to avoid conflating foreign nationals who may be in Ja...

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Trump’s 50% tariff threatens India’s manufacturing ambitions

Trump’s 50% tariff threatens India’s manufacturing ambi...

The U.S. is now India’s biggest export market and one of its top sources of fore...

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Rakuten Bank to refrain from JGB buying as more rate hikes seen

Rakuten Bank to refrain from JGB buying as more rate hi...

"We’re not going for any aggressive buying of JGBs until we’ve seen at least ano...

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Chinese investors eyeing Indonesia to avoid tariffs and tap local market

Chinese investors eyeing Indonesia to avoid tariffs and...

Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy and the world's fourth most populous...

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Thailand’s Delta sees AI boom boosting sales for coming years

Thailand’s Delta sees AI boom boosting sales for coming...

The maker of components for data centers and electric vehicles is boosting inves...

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Trump’s deal with Nvidia offers path forward in global trade war

Trump’s deal with Nvidia offers path forward in global ...

The deal provides U.S. firms a path to enter the Chinese market despite various ...

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Tokyo’s record-beating stock rally ends as Bessent jawbones Japan on rates

Tokyo’s record-beating stock rally ends as Bessent jawb...

The U.S. treasury secretary argues that Japan has an inflation problem.

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Do Kwon pleads guilty to U.S. fraud charges in $40 billion crypto collapse

Do Kwon pleads guilty to U.S. fraud charges in $40 bill...

The South Korean entrepreneur faces over a decade in prison for misleading inves...

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Man Group’s Japan fund buying bank stocks in bet on inflation

Man Group’s Japan fund buying bank stocks in bet on inf...

An investment manager at the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund is addin...

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MUFG in talks to arrange new debt swaps after $465 million deal

MUFG in talks to arrange new debt swaps after $465 mill...

Japan’s biggest bank is looking to expand its presence in the market for debt sw...