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Aug 9, 2023 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Daiki Mai |Yasutaka Tamura
Traders trying to push Japanese shares back up to three-decade highs face increasing obstacles — including selling by global funds that helped fuel this year’s gains. That’s the view of strategists who also see an increasingly unpopular prime minister unable to push through bold measures, and risks of fallout from China’s economic slowdown as factors likely to get in the way of Japanese stocks heading even higher.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Daiki Mai |Yasutaka Tamura
Traders trying to push Japanese shares back up to three-decade highs face increasing obstacles — including selling by global funds that helped fuel this year’s gains. That’s the view of strategists who also see an increasingly unpopular prime minister unable to push through bold measures, and risks of fallout from China’s economic slowdown as factors likely to get in the way of Japanese stocks heading even higher. The Topix index has retreated about 2% after hitting the highest since 1990 on Aug.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com | Daiki Mai |Yasutaka Tamura
(Bloomberg) -- Traders trying to push Japanese shares back up to three-decade highs face increasing obstacles — including selling by global funds that helped fuel this year’s gains.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
bloomberg.com | Daiki Mai |Yasutaka Tamura
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Daiki Mai
Japan’s biggest brokerage Nomura Holdings has hired a computer-generated influencer to advertise tax-free investing accounts as it tries to attract a younger generation of retail clients. Imma, a virtual influencer with a pink-colored bob and nearly a million total followers on Instagram and TikTok, has recently begun appearing in Nomura’s advertisements for tax-free accounts that are part of the Nippon Individual Savings Accounts system.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
bloomberg.com | Daiki Mai
Imma, a virtual influencer, is the face of Nomura’s new campaign for tax-free investment accounts.Photographer: Daiki Mai/BloombergJapan’s biggest brokerage Nomura Holdings Inc. has hired a computer-generated influencer to advertise tax-free investing accounts as it tries to attract a younger generation of retail clients.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Erica Yokoyama |Daiki Mai
Japanese lawmakers are weighing sales of government stakes in some of the nation’s biggest companies to fund expanding defense costs. But doing so won’t be easy, given the need to reach a consensus within the government, and a requirement to change laws in some cases. While factors including higher-than-expected tax incomes have left Japan with a higher budget surplus that could be used for defense spending, the government has admitted tax hikes can’t be avoided in the long run.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erica Yokoyama |Daiki Mai
Japanese lawmakers are weighing sales of government stakes in some of the nation’s biggest companies to fund expanding defense costs. But doing so won’t be easy, given the need to reach a consensus within the government and, in some cases, a requirement to change laws. While factors including higher-than-expected tax incomes have left Japan with a higher budget surplus, which could be used for defense spending, the government has admitted tax hikes can’t be avoided in the long run.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
bloomberg.com | Erica Yokoyama |Daiki Mai
Japanese lawmakers are weighing sales of government stakes in some of the nation’s biggest companies to fund expanding defense costs. But doing so won’t be easy, given the need to reach a consensus within the government, and a requirement to change laws in some cases. While factors including higher-than-expected tax incomes have left Japan with a higher budget surplus that could be used for defense spending, the government has admitted tax hikes can’t be avoided in the long run.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Ka Ho Cheuk |Daiki Mai
Singapore investors are snapping up Japanese real estate, attracted by a weaker yen and the prospect of tourism-driven growth in the second-largest metropolitan area Osaka. International property agent FM Investment said it has seen a fivefold increase in inquiries since Japan opened its borders in October, with Singapore making up about 70% of 800 requests between April and June alone, followed by Hong Kong. Second-quarter sales are double the volume of the whole of last year.
