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Japan's rebounding July machinery orders tempered by fragile biz outlook

Corporate Japan is facing strains from steep declines in earnings, discouraging business investment as the economy grapples with its worst postwar slump

Japan's Suga vows to put growth ahead of reform, stay course on Abenomics

Yoshihide Suga, on course to become Japan's next PM, said he would maintain incumbent premier Shinzo Abe's policy prioritizing economic growth over efforts to fix the country's tattered finances

Japan's Olympic minister vows to hold Tokyo Games 'at any cost'

Japan's Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto said on Tuesday that the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should be held "at any cost", trying to clear all doubts amid the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic

Campaign to succeed PM Shinzo Abe as party leader begins in Japan

The official campaigning to lead Japan's ruling party began with the longtime right-hand man of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe now seen as a top candidate and his likely successor to lead the government

Masayoshi Son makes a big options bet and SoftBank investors are worried

SoftBank shares tumbled 7.2% on Monday in Tokyo, erasing about $9 billion of market value

Japan's economy shrinks 28% in second quarter, worse than 1st estimate

Japan's economy shrank at a record, even worse rate in the April-June quarter than initially estimated

Tokyo Olympics to happen next year, despite coronavirus pandemic

IOC V-P Coates told AFP in a phone interview the Games will start as planned on July 23 "with or without Covid," stressing that the Olympics have never been cancelled outside of world wars

Typhoon Haishen heads to South Korea after battering southern Japan

The storm slammed Okinawa and other islands over the weekend with heavy rain, rough waves and high tides

Japan's LDP may call snap polls after leader chosen, says report

Shunichi Suzuki, the LDP general affairs chairman, told a BS TV Tokyo programme on Sunday that the new administration would inherit a high public approval rating from its predecessor

Nissan's Carlos Ghosn gone, American Kelly faces Japan trial alone

His boss Carlos Ghosn escaped financial misconduct charges by fleeing the country, but another former Nissan executive is still awaiting trial in Japan: Greg Kelly

Typhoon Haishen approaching Japan's Okinawa island, packing powerful winds

A powerful typhoon, the second in a week, was barreling toward the southern cluster of Japanese Okinawa islands on Saturday, prompting warnings about torrential rainfall and fierce wind gusts

Vegetables to pajamas: Airlines invent ways to make money amid pandemic

Japan's ANA Holdings Inc. sold tickets for a charter flight to nowhere

Top headlines: Japan to support firms moving to India, SC rejects exam plea

From Japan subsidising manufacturing firms moving to India or Bangladesh from China to IndiGo planning to shelve planned QIP if travel picks up, here are the top headlines of the evening

Japan to subsidise manufacturers if they shift to India from China: Report

The subsidy aims to reduce Japan's reliance 'on a handful of links' in its supply chains, says Nikkei Asian Review.

Astrazeneca to begin Phase 1/2 clinical trials of Covid vaccine in Japan

Astrazeneca said on Friday it is beginning Phase 1/2 clinical trials in Japan of its coronavirus vaccine candidate

5.0 magnitude quake strikes Japan's Fukui Prefecture, no tsunami warning

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on Friday struck the Reihoku District of Japan's Fukui Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)

With Nissan's Carlos Ghosn gone, American Kelly faces Japan trial alone

His boss Carlos Ghosn escaped financial misconduct charges by fleeing the country, but another former Nissan executive is still awaiting trial in Japan: Greg Kelly

Why Indo-Pacific countries will miss 'Abe Model' more than Japan

This was a prime minister who, for better or worse, seemed to see himself first of all as a convener of and evangelizer to the democracies of a "free and open" Indo-Pacific

Japanese livestock ship with 42 crew said to have sank in stormy seas

The Filipino crew member was rescued late Wednesday after Japanese navy P-3C surveillance aircraft spotted him wearing a life vest and waving while bobbing in the water

Livestock ship carrying 42 crew missing off southern Japan, rescue underway

The 11,947-ton Gulf Livestock 1 ship was carrying 5,800 cows west of the western coast of Amami Oshima in the East China Sea when it sent the distress call in the early hours of Wednesday