Tag: Japan

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 19:15 UTC

  Japan requests OIE free of FMD status; Korea de-listed resumes pork exports

  

  Japan formally requested the World Organization for Animal health, OIE, to declare the country free of foot and mouth disease do it can resume beef exports. Japan suffered an outbreak of FMD which forced the termination of 289.000 livestock.

• Friday, September 17th 2010 - 03:43 UTC

  Japan will continue to intervene to keep Yen-priced exports competitive

  

  Japan's prime minister said that authorities would keep intervening to curb the country’s currency strength as sagging manufacturing confidence underscored the threat the currency poses to the fragile economic recovery.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2010 - 04:28 UTC

  China points out: second-largest economy but not second largest economic power

  

  This week’s news that China had overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy in the second quarter of this year made headlines around the world. The economic milestone was seen as a telling confirmation of the shifting balance of economic power in Asia, and as a culmination of China's stunning three-decade economic resurgence.

• Monday, August 16th 2010 - 04:03 UTC

  Japan’s economy slows down considerably in second quarter

  

  Japan’s economy expanded at the slowest pace in three quarters. GDP rose an annualized 0.4% in the three months ended June 30 from a revised 4.4% expansion in the first quarter, the Cabinet Office said in Tokyo.

• Thursday, August 5th 2010 - 16:11 UTC

  Japan rice stockpiles to reach the highest in eight years in 2011

  

  Japan’s food rice stockpiles may reach the highest level in eight years at the end of June 2011, leading to a price drop and planting curbs by growers next year. Private and government inventories are forecast to climb 2.5% to 3.24 million metric tons from 3.16 million tons a year earlier, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a report Wednesday.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:00 UTC

  China overtakes Japan as world’s second largest economy, says Beijing

  

  China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy behind the United States, the country's chief currency regulator and vice-governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said this week.

• Thursday, July 1st 2010 - 07:03 UTC

  Japanese group secures iron-ore supply with stake in Brazilian steel foundry

  

  Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA, Brazil’s second-largest steelmaker, agreed to sell a stake in its mining and railroad businesses to Sumitomo Corp. for 1.93 billion US dollars before a possible share offering in the unit.

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 02:24 UTC

  Lack of compromise questions credibility of International Whaling Commission

  

  Attempts to agree a compromise between whaling nations and their opponents at the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting in Morocco have failed. After two days of private discussions, delegates reported they had been unable to reach agreement on major issues.

• Saturday, May 8th 2010 - 06:17 UTC

  Fearing Global Impact from Greece, World Markets Close Sharply Friday

  

  Global stock markets closed sharply Friday amid investor fears that Greece's debt crisis could halt the global economic recovery.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2010 - 06:33 UTC

  Australia Raises Interest Rate for the Sixth Time in Eight Months

  

  Australia's central bank has raised interest rates for the sixth time in eight months as the country's economy continues to recover. The target interest rate is now at 4.5%—up from 3% in October last year.