Japan's Nova in financial crisis
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Japan's largest chain of language schools, Nova, closes its schools and files for bankruptcy protection.
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s benchmark Nikkei stock index hit a five-week closing high Monday on upbeat capital spending figures for the April-June quarter by Japanese companies.
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LONDON/SINGAPORE  - Heightened investor expectations of a U.S. rate cut next month soothed financial market volatility on Thursday as a Bank of Japan policymaker said some of the turbulence had been overdone.
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Fallout from the housing slump on  mortgage and real estate companies deepened on Tuesday, as  title insurer First American Corp  and subprime lender  NovaStar Financial Inc  announced job cuts and  NovaStar&#39;s auditor expressed doubt that the company will  survive.
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Japanese small-caps are among the world&#39;s worst-performing stocks. The main indices took a tumble at the beginning of last year and analysts say they are not likely to return to their January 2006 records.
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The Fair Game column on Feb. 3, about problems at mortgage lenders, misstated the circumstances surrounding a bankruptcy filing related to the home mortgage lending unit of NovaStar Financial. An involuntary petition to force the unit into bankruptcy was filed with the court on Jan. 24 by a creditor who won a $49 million judgment against the unit; the unit did not file for bankruptcy. (On Feb. 7, the judge overseeing the case ruled against the petition.).
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Japan is the world&#39;s second largest economic entity, after the United States. Its economic clout is felt worldwide. It is the second largest financial supporter of the United Nations.
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This is hyperfinance. In the space of five frenetic days, stock markets have plunged and recovered; the US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates to 3.5 per cent; so-called "monoline" insurers, revealed as a small but vital valve in the financial machinery, have wobbled; and one J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Kerviel has lost EU5bn for a venerable French bank.
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Citigroup , which has been raising  funds since taking a huge hit from the U.S. subprime mortgage  meltdown, has sold its Japan headquarters to rival Morgan  Stanley  in a deal reportedly worth US$445 million.
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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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Just before U.S. financial markets were roiled by a global credit squeeze this summer, an equally dramatic financial crisis threatened "Second Life," the much-hyped online world.
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Honeywell International stepped into the battle for control of industrial group Novar yesterday with a $1.5bn (Â£790m) agreed cash offer that some believe represents a knock-out blow.
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Bank of Japan &#39;tankan survey&#39; also shows strong capital spending, boosting stocks and the yen. TOKYO  - Confidence among Japan&#39;s big manufacturers waned for the first time in seven quarters, the Bank
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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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The case has focused attention on the tension between parts of JapanÂs corporate establishment and a recent tilt toward American-style capitalism.
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Masatsugu Asakawa has one of the busiest jobs in Tokyo these days: monitoring the U.S. dollar's fluctuation against the Japanese yen.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 9--TOKYO -- Confectioner Fujiya Co. said Friday it fell deeper into  the red, with a group net loss of 1.67 billion yen, in the first three  quarters of fiscal 2006 on a 1.5 percent fall in sales to 61.73 billion yen.