Credit crunch worries Japan's PM
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda tells the BBC how problems in the world's financial markets are worrying him.
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Japan's prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe,   turned his attention on Thursday to the line-up for his cabinet   amid concerns about how the hawkish, youthful leader will cope   with diplomatic and economic challenges ahead.
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Japanese stocks snapped a seven-day losing streak Thursday, as concerns eased about the possibility of major Japanese banks becoming entangled in a fund to deal with the U.S. home loan crisis.
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A string of disappointing economic reports released Tuesday heightened concerns that Japan's recovery may be fading fast.
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Japan's financial regulators may suspend or even end some private banking operations at the Japanese commercial banking unit of U.S. financial services firm Citigroup Inc., the Nihon Keizai newspaper said on Thursday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's support rates have fallen near lows hit after he suffered an election drubbing in late July, according to a newspaper poll on Tuesday.
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Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui  said on Tuesday policy decisions should be taken &quot;early&quot; if  warranted by economic conditions, stirring speculation the  central bank will soon raise interest rates from zero.
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Fallout from a scandal-tainted minister&#39;s  suicide and mismanaged pensions swirled on Tuesday, threatening  the chances that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s ruling  camp can win a July upper house election.
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The Bank of Japan is seen holding off raising interest rates on Wednesday, hours after the U.S. central bank slashed rates by a hefty half-percentage point to try to shield the U.S. economy from a housing slump and market turmoil.
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To keep the economy rolling, Japan's new leader must push ahead with reform
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Japan industrialists are gloomier about the economic outlook for the first time since March 2003,  the central bank's quarterly Tankan survey finds.
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A sharp fall in Japanese industrial output in January raises fresh questions about the strength of its economic recovery.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe'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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Japan&#39;s finance minister became the first  to launch a bid to lead the country on Thursday as the ruling  party scrambled to avoid a policy vacuum after Prime Minister  Shinzo Abe&#39;s shock resignation.
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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whisked to a hospital a day after he resigned for exhaustion and psychological anguish, is the latest high-profile figure to seek treatment over work-related duress in a nation known for its stressed-out laborers.
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The threat of a U.S. recession has central bankers around the world nervous  -  except for Japan's. Perhaps they should be
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, freshly elected but under fire for vague economic policies, rolled out a crack team of top financial ministers Tuesday that combines academic know-how with veteran experience to keep Japan's economic recovery from fizzling.