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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Aya Wagatsuma |Alice French
An electronic stock board showing the Topix Index displayed inside the Kabuto One building in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Japan’s stocks plunged after President Donald Trump slapped the nation with a 24% levy as part of tariffs on trading partners worldwide. A stronger yen also dragged exporter shares lower.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Yoshiaki Nohara |Alice French
Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average slid into a bear market over fears of a widening trade war, while Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was reportedly set to have a call with US President Donald Trump on Monday night.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alice French |Jon Herskovitz |Momoka Yokoyama
On a brisk winter day, high-school freshman Rin Saito’s cleats crunch the snow as she rubs the leather of the ball against her gray and purple uniform. With each crack of the bat, she dreams of baseball stardom on the same field where global sensation Shohei Ohtani honed his skills as a teenager. Saito, an Ohtani superfan and a power-hitting infielder, is among the scores of girls who leave their hometowns each year for Ohtani's alma mater in Iwate.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Alice French |Youkyung Lee
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Alice French
Shares of Fast Retailing declined as much as 4.4%, the most since Sept. 30, after a spokesperson said the company is concerned about Chinese demand following comments from its chairman that the retailer is not using cotton from Xinjiang. Tadashi Yanai said Fast Retailing’s flagship clothing chain Uniqlo does not source cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, where the US has restricted trade over human rights concerns, in a BBC interview last week.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Alice French
Tokyo Gas Co.’s stock rose 15% at one point in early trading Wednesday, its biggest climb since 1987, after Elliott Investment Management reported it had acquired 5.03% of the utility company’s shares. Elliott may make “important proposals” to Tokyo Gas, according to a filing to Japan’s finance ministry on Tuesday.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Alice French
Shares of Nidec Corp. climbed as much as 5.4% on Tuesday morning after Super Micro Computer Inc., for which Nidec makes cooling modules, said it had hired a new auditor and filed a plan to comply with Nasdaq listing requirements, boosting its stock price. Super Micro’s shares rose 16% during US trading on Monday, their sharpest jump since March. Nidec’s stock, tracking Super Micro higher, was among the Topix Index’s biggest gainers on Tuesday.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alice French
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alice French |Momoka Yokoyama
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
financialpost.com | Alice French |Momoka Yokoyama
(Bloomberg) — It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday in Tokyo and the city’s railway enthusiasts are gathered at their favorite drinking spot. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Japan's Train Lovers Are Snapping Up Shares in a Beloved Metro Kiha Bar, tucked down an unassuming backstreet near Ningyocho station, is decked out to replicate a Tokyo subway car.
