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Three more upper house lawmakers from Japan's ruling party resigned late on Tuesday to protest government plans to restart nuclear reactors and double the country's consumption tax, according to reports. Their exit will further weaken the Democratic Party of Japan's presence in the upper house, where the DPJ is already in a minority. It comes a few weeks after politician Ichiro Ozawa and 48 other lawmakers quit in response to the ruling party's decision to increase the consumption tax to 10% by October 2015. DPJ Secretary General Azuma Koshiishi warned at a news conference that the DPJ-led government could "collapse" if party members don't realize it is in trouble, according to a Kyodo News report.Copyright © 2012 MarketWatch, Inc....
* Japan car makers expect earnings improvement despite yen (Updates with statement from U.S. auto lobby)By Chang-Ran Kim, Asia autos correspondentTOKYO, Sept 16 (Reu...
* Unclear if Japan has stomach for long intervention campaignBy Nick MacfieSINGAPORE, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Japan intervened in foreign exchange markets for the first ...
By Masayuki KitanoTOKYO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds ralliedbroadly on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Naoto Kan's win in aruling party leadership vot...
By Shinichi SaoshiroTOKYO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The Nikkei stock average rallied on Wednesday, reversing earlier losses as the yen fell from a 15-year high versus the...
* Fin Min Noda says communicating with authorities abroad (Adds finance minister Noda, market comments)TOKYO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Japan intervened in the currencymar...
By Masayuki KitanoTOKYO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds ralliedbroadly on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Naoto Kan's win in aruling party vote the previ...
(Updates prices, adds comment, details)NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar sold off acrossthe board Tuesday, touching a 15-year low below 83 yen as abreak of technical s...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell below 83 yenfor the first time in 15 years on Tuesday after Japan's primeminister won a ruling party leadership vote, reducing t...
(Updates prices, adds data, comment, changes byline,dateline, previous LONDON)By Steven C. JohnsonNEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slid to a 15-yearlow against the ye...
TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The head of Japan's most powerfulbusiness lobby urged the government to take steps to halt therising yen, including intervening in the cur...
* Weak German ZEW weighs on sentiment, U.S. data awaited* MSCI world equity index down 0.1 percentBy Jessica MortimerLONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The yen hit a 15-yea...
* Dollar falls to 9-mth low vs Swiss franc, below parity (Adds quote, updates prices)By Tamawa DesaiLONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The dollar hit a 15-year lowagainst t...
By Shinichi SaoshiroTOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds edged upon Tuesday, helped by weakness in Tokyo stocks and higher U.S.Treasuries, with a Fed...
* New foreign minister faces tensions with China, U.S. (Updates with Kan comments at news conference)By Chisa Fujioka and Yoko KubotaTOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Japan...
By Shinichi SaoshiroTOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds fell onFriday as Tokyo stocks hit a six-week high, while the yield curvesteepened as Japan's...
* Foreign minister Maehara faces tensions with China, U.S. (Recasts with official announcements of cabinet posts)By Yoko NishikawaTOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Japanese...
* New foreign minister faces tensions with China, U.S. (Recasts throughout)By Yoko NishikawaTOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kanwill keep pol...
By Aiko HayashiTOKYO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A stubbornly strong yen andworries about a cooling global economy mean Japanese stocks willlikely end 2010 slightly lower t...
(Corrects first paragraph to say dollar/yen rate was not strongenough,...not...weak enough)* Japan car makers expect earnings improvement despite yen (Updates with s...
