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Government officials Wednesday raided the offices of Shoko Chukin Bank, a state-linked lender for small and medium-sized firms, over improper loans issued under a state-backed program to help crisis-hit companies. The Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Finance Ministry plan to look into the ...

Former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, endorsed the Bank of Japan’s extraordinary easing measures to break free of persistent deflation and underlined the importance of coordinating monetary policy with fiscal stimulus. “Despite improvement in the Japanese economy, I think there’s still a strong case for the ...

SoftBank Group has quietly amassed a $4 billion stake in Nvidia, making it the fourth-largest shareholder in the graphics chip-maker, according to people familiar with the situation. SoftBank, which just closed its Vision Fund, disclosed it owned an unspecified amount of Nvidia stock when it announced $93 billion of commitments ...

April sales at department stores nationwide rose 0.7 percent from a year earlier on a same-store basis, up for the first time in 14 months, an industry group has announced. Overall sales at 229 outlets operated by 80 companies totaled ¥452.7 billion. The growth mainly reflected brisk demand for cosmetics ...

Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, helped by the yen’s fall against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 129.70 points, or 0.66 percent, to finish at 19,742.98. On Tuesday, the key market gauge shed 65 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues closed up 9.89 ...

Toshiba could begin the process to sell a majority stake in Westinghouse Electric this fall as the U.S. company makes its way through a bankruptcy proceeding, according to Mark Marano, Westinghouse’s chief operating officer. Tokyo-based Toshiba has “signaled pretty clearly to the market” that it wants to divest a majority ...

Confidence among Japanese manufacturers receded in May for the first time in nine months after hitting a decade-high level April, a Reuters survey has found, showing guarded optimism in a nascent export-led economic recovery. The monthly poll — which tracks the Bank of Japan’s key quarterly tankan — showed confidence ...

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Country: YemenIn the last three weeks, authorities have reported over 35,500 suspected cholera cases, a third of whom are children, and 361 associated deaths in 19 of 22 governorates. Sana’a, 24 May 2017 Cholera continues to spread at an ...

Source: UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Country: WorldBuilding resilience should be a 'core business' for the private sector, group says, as key forum on disaster risk reduction gets underway.By Jonathan Fowler CANCUN, Mexico, 23 May 2017 – A UN-backed group of companies working to curb hazard impacts has unveiled a new ...

In a similar vein to coffee, sesame will go through reforms in an attempt to improve sales. Recently the government sat down with investors and came up with recommendations to improve coffee production. Now over the past few weeks solutions are being worked over to improve sesame exports through the ...