Koizumi Cabinet&#39;s Approval Rating Rises to 42%, Nikkei Reports
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s Cabinet has an approval rating of 42 percent, an increase of 2 percentage points from July, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said, citing its own survey taken over the weekend.
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The Nikkei average rose 0.53 percent by midsession on Tuesday as investors remained optimistic about Japan&#39;s economy, buying banks such as Mizuho Financial Group and shares in firms tied to domestic business.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei average rose more than one percent to a 2 1/2-month closing high on Friday, bolstered by gains on Wall Street and a growing consensus that Tokyo stocks look cheap compared with the US and other Asian markets.
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TOKYO: Japan&#39;s Nikkei average closed up 0.75 per cent on Wednesday, rising for a fourth day after an advance in US blue chips to three-and-a-half-year highs offset an unexpected drop in Japan&#39;s trade surplus.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei share average rose half a percent to its highest close in five months on Tuesday after the release of economic data that supported views that Japan&#39;s economic slowdown would be temporary.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his cabinet on Monday, replacing several top ministers in an effort to boost his popularity, consolidate political support and quicken the pace of reforms in the world's second-largest economy.
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Japan&#39;s core private-sector machinery  orders, a key gauge of corporate capital spending, rose 5.9  percent in May from the previous month, government data showed  on Monday.
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Japan's Nikkei share average rose half a percent to its highest close in five months on Tuesday after the release of economic data that supported views that Japan's economic slowdown would be temporary.
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TOKYO Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his Cabinet yesterday for the third time since taking power in 2001, replacing several top ministers in an effort to boost his popularity, consolidate political support and quicken the pace of reforms.
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The support rate for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s cabinet registered at 34 percent, around half what it was when he took office in September, a poll showed Tuesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s  support remains stuck at slightly above 30 percent, which many  analysts consider a crisis level, a survey showed on Monday,  just over a month before an upper house election.
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The Nikkei average rose 0.53 percent by midsession on Tuesday as investors remained optimistic about Japan's economy, buying banks such as Mizuho Financial Group and shares in firms tied to domestic business.
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Daiei Inc. shares rose as much as 10 percent in Tokyo as individual investors bought in expectation the government&#39;s 707 billion yen ($6.8 billion) plan to rehabilitate Japan&#39;s third
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his cabinet yesterday, replacing several top ministers in an effort to boost his popularity, consolidate political support and quicken the pace of reforms in the world&#39;s second-largest economy.
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Japanese stock indexes rose by midmorning Friday after the central bank&#39;s closely watched tankan business sentiment survey showed a better-than-expected confidence among large manufacturers.
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Japan's Nikkei rose 0.54 percent on Tuesday to post its highest close in five months after economic data supported the view that Japan's economic slowdown is temporary, giving a boost to banks such as Mizuho Financial Group
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Japan's core private-sector machinery orders, a key gauge of corporate capital spending, rose 5.9 percent in May from the previous month, government data showed on Monday.