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The yen quickly weakened beyond the 150 mark against the US dollar

A stronger yen would potentially siphoning hundreds of billions in dollars of capital back to Japan

Genting Singapore came close to securing a casino project in Yokohama

The intervention, ordered up by the Ministry of Finance, comes with risks if it fails to scare off speculators.

Investors should not be deterred by Nikkei‘s rout. Japan may fight back like the Karate Kid.

It’s a pragmatic, if long overdue decision from the often cautious Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Abe is known as a key supporter of BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s policy of maintaining rock-bottom interest rates

HONG KONG (May 18): The value of pay and benefits packages for expatriates moving to Hong Kong and Singapore continued to decline last year, according to consultancy firm ECA International.

TOKYO (March 23): Don’t believe Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s global fund manager survey, which shows that Japan is the second-most popular equity market, says Jonathan Allum, a strategist at SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd.

SYDNEY (Dec 19): The dollar gained versus most major peers after data showed bets on the greenback climbed for the longest stretch since August 2015. Asian stock markets face a challenging opening to the week after the political storm spurred by China’s