Toyota supplier Denso and Asahi Kasei among those said to be on board

The escalation in North Korea tensions comes as South Korea on Wednesday elected a new conservative president

The reduction is part of an effort to alleviate the burden on suppliers forced to adapt to repeated output plan changes due to acute shortages of semiconductors and other supplies

Exports rose 14.9% year-on-year to $18.74 billion, boosted by a 28.5% jump in sales of semiconductors and a 98.8% surge in petroleum products

The latest in a long battle between the once-mighty tech company and a number of its foreign shareholders as it tries to revive itself

If the SMBC Nikko four broke the market rules to close such deals, it can be said to be a breach of trust to deceive investors and others

Platform companies Naver and Kakao surged 8.54% and 8.58%, respectively, their sharpest gains in nearly two years, on hopes that Yoon will help remove regulatory hurdles for operators

Tokyo-listed Asia Development Capital last month sold 32% of Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho to a group of newspaper publishers led by Yomiuri Shimbun

North Korea looks to be preparing to launch a reconnaissance satellite, which could prove as controversial as the country's weapons tests as they use the same banned ballistic missile tech

Japan gets most of its primary energy needs from crude oil but LNG takes up a bigger piece of the pie when it comes to electricity production

Top executive says it's important to maintain healthy, peaceful, balanced relationships with big, powerful neighbours.

The Justice ministry dispatched more than 100 investigators to search 14 locations in Taipei, Taoyuan and Taichung, as well as Hsinchu