Microsoft has been encouraging users to move to its Edge browser, and announced the end of support for Explorer on Wednesday

High commodity prices contributed to a surge in imports, which soared 48.9% in the year to May, Ministry of Finance data showed

There's speculation the prospect of significant US interest rate rises and the yen’s slump may force the Bank of Japan's hand on policy tightening

Observers say speculators betting on a Bank of Japan capitulation amid tightening at other global central banks have been attacking the bonds

The model is for Japanese and US businesses to jointly establish a new company, or else Japanese firms could set up a new manufacturing hub in the US

Toyota was once a darling of environmentalists, but has more recently drawn criticism over its apparent reluctance to phase out petrol-powered cars

"The disruption ... on the international economic order; and the chance to grow would be much, much (more) significant than this one," chief trade negotiator John Deng said

The Bank of Japan ramped up bond buying on Tuesday in a bid to keep the yield on 10-year government bonds at a 0.25% cap, amid renewed pressure from rising global interest rates

A Korean firm that produces isopropyl alcohol, a raw material for cleaning chip wafers, is facing problems shipping to a Chinese firm that supplies wafers to a Samsung factory in China

The company is one of the world's 10 largest video-game firms by market capitalisation, with its $22 billion valuation larger than Take-Two Interactive, the company behind "Grand Theft Auto"

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the yen's recent sharp declines are negative for Japan's economy, shifting a long-held stance.

A Hyundai Motor union official said production at the Ulsan plants picked up slightly on Friday in some lines and the factory was operating at about 60% capacity