The Sultan of Selangor on Wednesday instructed religious officials in the Malaysian state to allow its festival for Japan’s traditional summer Bon Odori dance to proceed next month despite calls from conservative Muslim groups for the event to be banne…
Japan economy watcher sentiment up in May on service sector recovery
Business confidence among workers with jobs sensitive to economic trends rose for the third straight month in May, supported by a solid service sector in the wake of the removal of anti-coronavirus restrictions, government data showed Wednesday. The di…
Baseball: Padres’ Darvish pitches 7 solid innings for 5th win
Yu Darvish threw seven innings of two-hit ball Tuesday to lead the San Diego Padres to a 7-0 victory over the New York Mets. Darvish (5-3) struck out six of the 25 batters he faced at Petco Park without issuing a walk. He posted his fifth win of the se…
Tokyo stocks open higher on firm Wall St., yen’s 20-yr low vs dollar
Tokyo stocks opened higher Wednesday, encouraged by overnight gains on Wall Street and the yen’s slide the previous day to its lowest level against the U.S. dollar in over 20 years. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average…
URGENT: Yen falls to fresh 20-yr low at 133.00 vs. U.S. dollar in Tokyo
The Japanese yen fell to a fresh 20-year low against the U.S. dollar Tuesday, briefly touching the 133 line, on expectations that the interest rate gap will widen between Japan and the United States. The Japanese currency sank to 133.00 against the dol…
Main events scheduled for Wednesday, June 8
Main events scheduled in Japan for Wednesday, June 8: — 1st revision of gross domestic product data for January-March quarter to be released by Cabinet Office at 8:50 a.m. — Preliminary balance of payments statistics for April to be released by Finan…
Japan on high alert as yen tumbles to 20-year low vs dollar
The Japanese government was on high alert Tuesday as the yen dropped against the U.S. dollar to levels unseen over the past 20 years, fueling fears that the nascent recovery in the economy from the coronavirus pandemic could be temporary. “We are payin…
High energy prices may continue amid Ukraine uncertainty: white paper
Uncertainty over the global energy supply, heightened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, could continue to keep energy prices high for a while, according to Japan’s annual energy report released Tuesday. The latest white paper on energy also stressed the…
U.S. exempts tariffs on solar panels from 4 Southeast Asian nations
The U.S. administration of President Joe Biden said Monday it is exempting tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations for two years as part of efforts to accelerate the clean energy transition. The move is intended as a temporary means t…
Soccer: Japan suffer narrow defeat to Brazil on late penalty
Japan went down 1-0 against Brazil in an international friendly Monday after Neymar scored a 77th-minute penalty for the dominant South Americans. Japan, 23rd in the FIFA rankings, had hung on until Wataru Endo was penalized for bringing down substitut…