Japan&#39;s banking revival starts with a cleanup
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&quot;Revival starts with a cleanup,&quot; said post-World War II finance minister Juichi Tsushima on August 17, 1945. And a convoluted cleanup in Japan&#39;s banking business is what is under way today.
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Japanâs once vaunted electronics industry has downsized to survive global competition, and is inadvertently setting off a brain drain.
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In one of the severest penalties ever imposed on a bank in Japan, regulators ordered Citigroup to close its Japanese private banking operations because of serious violations of the country&#39;s banking laws.
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The company said it would shutter part of its Japanese  trust business and promised sharper oversight of its remaining  operations, after a scandal led to the closure of its private  bank in the country.
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Japan's financial regulator may suspend  or even end some private banking operations at the Japanese  commercial banking unit of U.S. financial services firm  Citigroup Inc. due to lost customer data and questionable  securities transactions, local media said on Thursday.
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Japan and like-minded pro-whaling nations took a step toward their goal of resuming commercial whaling on Tuesday at a special meeting of the International Whaling Commission.
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To keep the economy rolling, Japan's new leader must push ahead with reform
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Mizuho Financial Group, Japanâs biggest bank, reported an 8.4 percent fall in first-half profit on Monday but raised its full-year outlook by 33 percent due to smaller charges than expected for writing off bad loans.
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The Bank of Japan made an &quot;appropriate&quot; decision to raise interest rates Wednesday for the first time since last July, the top government spokesman said.
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Confidence in business conditions at major Japanese companies fell from three months ago dampening expectations of an interest rate increase and clouding the outlook for the worldâs No. 2 economy.
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Cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.
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Retailers such as Ito-Yokado got a lift after government data showed activity in Japan&#39;s service sector rose in June as a wide range of businesses including retailers and restaurants enjoyed a recovery in customers.
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Japanese government set out Tuesday fresh steps, including a revision to a disaster relief law, to help survivors hit by a series of deadly earthquakes in Niigata Prefecture as
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Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui, two of Japan&#39;s four biggest banking groups, reported Monday that their group net profits for the first fiscal half fell from the previous year, despite some progress in getting rid of bad debts.
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Get up to speed on this resurgent financial trend.
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Baseball returned to Japan on Monday after all weekend games were wiped out by the first players' strike in the sport's 70-year history in the country.
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The move is a reversal of fortune that could open the door for other banks to recoup losses.