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Stocks closed sharply higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday after showing wild swings due to mixed investor reactions to the Bank of Japan’s surprise decision to introduce negative interest rates. The 225-issue Nikkei average jumped 476.85 points, or 2.8 percent, to end at 17,518.30. On Thursday, the key ...

Power usage in Japan dropped last year to the lowest level since 1998 as households and businesses conserved electricity amid a stagnant economy and shrinking population. The country consumed 806.03 terawatt-hours of electricity from Japan’s 10 regional power utilities, down 2.7 percent from 2014, according to data released Friday by ...

A U.S. congressional probe into the impact of a hack of Juniper Networks Inc software will examine the possibility that it was initially altered at the behest of the National Security Agency, a lawmaker said in an interview on Thursday. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this month ...

Japan’s economy barely grew late last year, data released Friday suggest, as stagnant incomes, the slowdown in China and the mixed blessing of lower oil prices hobbled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recovery strategy. Abe’s push to revitalize the world’s third-largest economy took another blow with the resignation Thursday of economy ...

All Nippon Airways plans to launch direct flights between Tokyo’s Narita International Airport and Mexico City in the second half of fiscal 2016, sources said. ANA will offer seven round-trip flights on the route using the new midsize Boeing 787-8. The airline expects the route to attract business passengers because ...

The son-in-law of Vladimir Putin stands to benefit from $1.75 billion in cheap finance from the Russian state, a Reuters examination of public documents shows. The money will help fund a petrochemical project at a company in which Kirill Shamalov, husband of Katerina Tikhonova, the Russian president’s younger daughter, has ...

The number of property transactions in the nation has tumbled, rents have been muted and inflation expectations have waned — all of which has prompted a growing number of analysts and economists to turn bearish on property prices, which have been recovering since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power ...

Like a friendly but persistent sales rep, Microsoft has a message for anyone who owns a personal computer: If you haven’t yet upgraded to Windows 10, the company highly recommends it. So highly, in fact, that in coming weeks, PC owners who have set their machines to automatically install important ...

Poor Barbie. She had plastic surgery to become more socially acceptable. But a lot of her critics still don’t like her. Barbie’s manufacturer, Mattel, announced Thursday that the doll has three new body types — curvy, tall and petite. Barbie will also now come in seven skin tones, 22 eye ...

The Netherlands started test-driving its first driverless minibuses on Thursday, hoping to introduce a full-time autonomous passenger service in a central Dutch province by summer. Dutch Infrastructure Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen took the first ride in a “WEpod” shuttle, designed to carry six people without a driver between the ...