The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates at its January meeting as inflation pressures intensify, setting the stage for significant market reactions.

IG Port established Signal.MD in October 2014. Katsuji Morishita served as the company's inaugural president. The studio's current president and representative director is Takatoshi Chino.

Japan’s chip-related stocks fall as DeepSeek gained momentum, raising concerns about a challenge to America’s global leadership in artificial intelligence.

Asian shares rose partly on optimism about artificial intelligence in China, shrugging off Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Colombia that cut risk appetite elsewhere.

U.S. stock futures and Asian shares outside China slumped on Monday as investors weighed the implications of Chinese startup DeepSeek's launch of a free, open-source artificial intelligence model to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.

After a decade of animating, Signal.MD is saying goodbye, sort of. The studio will be absorbed into its older brother Production I.G.

The dollar was down against a basket of currencies, but could rise further this year on potential U.S. tariff polices and more cautious Fed interest-rate cuts.

Japanese annual pay increases this year must exceed the 5.1% secured last year because real wages continue to fall, the head of the Rengo trade union group told Reuters on Friday.

If the Bank of Japan had behaved in a similar manner to its G 10 peers, notes Tim Baker of Deutsche Bank, the country’s interest rates would have increased by two percentage points over the past few years.

Shares of IG Group Holdings plc (LSE:IGG) fell by 2% today after the company reported financial results that showed total revenue surpassing expectations.

SB19 and BINI have now become household names in the country, but more groups are seeking to follow their footsteps in the music industry.

YogaSix, the largest franchised yoga brand in the United States, has expanded into Japan, opening its first studio on January 7. Located in the Shinagawa neighborhood of Tokyo, the studio offers an inclusive yoga experience to the local community, including YogaSix’s signature heated yoga class, Y6 Hot.