Binance Japan’s business partnership with PayPay is an ambitious push to make crypto an everyday payment tool in Japan’s fragmented, yet rapidly evolving market.

Traders have piled in on the "Takaichi trade" — a bet on stronger stocks, rising bond yields, and a weaker yen.

Japanese real estate funds and developers focusing on the retail sector are leading a stock market rally as investors bet the cheaply valued sector will outperform as consumer spending recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

TOKYO -- TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Tuesday and Japan’s benchmark inched up just a few points to a new record. France’s CAC 40 edged 0.1% higher, to 7,978.27, as investors snapped up bargains following losses a day earlier after its prime minister abruptly resigned on Monday.

For years, Japan’s nearly $8 trillion government bond market was an oddity among global peers. Prices barely stirred, and yields were razor-thin—sometimes even negative, so investors were essentially paying to hold the bonds.

Japanese savers are breaking with a decadeslong habit, thanks to a renewed government push to get households to put their money to work.

Wall Street is hanging near its records, as technology stocks keep rising. The S&P 500 added 0.5% Monday, coming off its latest all-time high.

Japan is closely watching volatile moves in the currency market, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday, amid the yen's recent w

Japan's tuna market, the world's largest, is taking an outsized hit from the coronavirus pandemic, pressuring restaurants and wholesalers at Tokyo's sprawling Toyosu fish market to adapt to survive.

Japan’s Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato stepped up his warnings over yen movements, after the currency hit a fresh eight-month low against the dollar early Friday, despite efforts by the ruling party’s new leader to calm market concerns.