A consortium of about 70 Japanese firms, including the country's three mega-banks, aims to launch a yen-based digital currency in fiscal 2022 after trials in coming months

The world's biggest memory chipmaker has said it is also considering sites in Arizona and New York, but an announcement is expected in Texas shortly.

Beijing tells Taiwanese companies operating on the mainland to choose a side as it punishes conglomerate for alleged business violations

Japanese officials are working on ways to get around restrictions on releasing national oil reserves in tandem with other countries to dampen prices, government sources say

This would be the first time for Japan to release oil reserves to lower crude prices, although it has tapped such reserves during natural disasters and geopolitical risks overseas

Shared ‘third country concerns’ were revealed as one of the main motivations for the new partnership between two of the world’s top three economies

Core machinery orders in the world's third-largest economy were virtually flat in September and followed a 2.4% decline in August

Tokyo is also looking to beef up its storage battery sector as part of its multi-trillion-yen recovery plan

Worsening global production bottlenecks pose increasing risks to export-reliant Japan, though analysts expect the economy to rebound in the current quarter

Rise was driven by sharp increases in the prices of commodities, with petrol and coal among the biggest movers in the corporate goods price index

The plant in Kumamoto prefecture will focus on producing 22- to 28-nanometre semiconductors, which are critical to the vehicle sector

SoftBank shares enjoyed the biggest daily rise in 11 months, lifting the group's capitalisation above $100 billion. Trading volume was double the 30-day average