Japan’s core inflation rate rose to a 16-month high at 3% in December, year on year, boosting the case for a rate hike from the Bank of Japan.

This country has the the largest nominal GDP in Asia and the second-largest globally, behind the USA with $30.33 trillion (£24 trillion).

Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.0% in December from a year earlier to mark the fastest annual pace in 16 months, data showed on Friday, keeping alive market expectations that the central bank will keep raising ultra-low interest rates.

Japanese electric motor maker Nidec posted a 5% rise in third-quarter operating profit on Thursday to 54.5 billion yen ($348 million), compared to 51.8 billion yen in the same period a year earlier.

Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication. But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison. The population here reflects the aging society outside ...

There will be the usual month-end data dump from Japan. Inflation, labour, industrial production and retail sales will be released on the last day of January. The Tokyo CPI is expected to ease from 3.0% year-on-year in December to 2.6% YoY in January, as the government resumed its utility subsidy programme from January.

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Prime Video has named Keisuke Oishi as its new country manager for Japan, effective Jan. 20. The veteran Amazon executive, who most recently served as director and general manager of Amazon Music Japan, will report to Gaurav Gandhi, VP of Prime Video Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. He replaces Kodama Takashi.

Japan will continue to strengthen its defence capabilities given the security situation in East Asia, Japan's foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart in a meeting on Tuesday, his spokesperson said.

By Rae Wee and Koh Gui Qing SINGAPORE/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Asia shares rose on Thursday, helped by a jump in their Chinese counterparts on Beijing's latest measures to shore up its crumbling stock market,

Japan and the Philippines plan to convey to President-elect Donald Trump the urgent need for the U.S. to remain committed to upholding the rule of law in an Asian region where China’s actions are caus

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