Report: Official urges trust in Japan bank
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A senior ruling party official said Japan should trust its central bank with the decision on when to raise interest rates, a report said Monday, ahead of this week's expected move to boost rates long frozen at zero.
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Japan&#039;s central bank looks poised to raise interest rates for the first time in almost six years in a show of confidence in the economic recovery at a key two-day meeting.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Japan Lends To Environment, Development Projects in SW China" - Xinhua headline]  Guiyang, Feb.
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Japan's second-largest bank says it is committed to supporting struggling Mitsubishi Motors, despite denying it is preparing 100bn yen of fresh investment
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Top Japanese finance officials gave conflicting economic assessments Friday, with the central bank chief predicting a slowdown in Japan while the economy minister said she saw no sign of one.
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An executive allegedly involved in a bid-rigging scam that has been linked to the suicide of Japan's agriculture minister leaped to his death Tuesday, officials said. The deaths have added to the pressure on a government struggling against a series of scandals.
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The Bank of Japan will raise a key interest rate to 0.25 percent from zero next week, a news report said Tuesday, amid conflicting signals from government officials over the wisdom of such a move.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday he will press his country's case in Washington this week for reducing what he called the "the excessive burden" placed on Okinawa by the presence of U.S. troops.
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WASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato urged Japan on Thursday to accelerate economic reforms and prepare macroeconomic policy with an eye to putting an end to deflation.
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TOKYO A leading executive at Citigroup, which was forced to shut its private bank in Japan in September, said Tuesday that the bank would review all past transactions with individual customers in Japan.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the frontrunner to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said on Sunday it was vital to keep a thaw in ties with China on track but also urged Beijing to better explain its ballooning military spending.
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Japan has said it will hold its first joint history study with China next week and called for both sides to be open-minded so they can improve ties strained over the past.
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An Asian Development Bank official called on East Asian countries to ensure that their currencies rose in unison with the dollar.
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Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui  proposed at the BOJ&#039;s rate-setting meeting on Friday that the  central bank raise interest rates for the first time in six  years, Kyodo news agency reported, citing unnamed sources.
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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's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   pledged on Tuesday to boost his country's role in global   affairs while trying to improve relations with China, frayed by   predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo war shrine.
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TOKYO  - A Japanese securities market overseer recommended Friday that U.S. bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald Securities be disciplined for illegally using its own accounts to absorb trades ordered by clients.