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Micron Technology Inc. moved a step closer to its takeover of bankrupt Japanese memory chip producer Elpida Memory Inc. this week, The Idaho Statesman reported. The Tokyo High Court tossed out an appeal by creditors to a Tokyo District Court's a ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 05/16/2013 - 22:05 - 0 comments

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is to announce next month his much-anticipated strategy for economic growth, has quietly put aside plans to overhaul a rigid labor system that is blamed for many of the woes facing once-dominant Japanese corporatio ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 05/09/2013 - 20:05 - 0 comments

Investment banks are among the first and biggest beneficiaries of Japan’s new economic-stimulus policies, known as Abenomics. Since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came into office in December with a plan to end more than a decade of deflation, banks’ underwri ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 04/25/2013 - 23:07 - 0 comments

New Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda quickly and dramatically put his stamp on the long-beleaguered central bank, implanting a policy grand in substance and simple in presentation—a stark contrast with his predecessor, who favored incremental steps, em ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 04/04/2013 - 22:49 - 0 comments

Fri, 03/15/2013 Bankruptcy Division, District Court of Guam (Hagatna) ...

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Japan’s central bank governor has told parliament that the government’s vast and growing debt is “not sustainable,” and that a loss of confidence in state finances could “have a very negative impact” on the entire economy, the Financial Times reporte ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 03/28/2013 - 21:10 - 0 comments

Memory chipmaker Micron said the Tokyo district court issued an order approving its acquisition of Japanese memory chipmaker Elpida after creditors agreed to the plan, Reuters reported. Boise, Idaho-based Micron, which is losing money due to a crumbling ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 02/28/2013 - 21:29 - 0 comments

unemployment rate for men in the 45-54 age bracket grew to 3.5% from 3.1%, and for those aged 55-64 to 5.0 ...

Resource Article - global.abi.org - 02/25/2013 - 14:07 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Struggling Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu is slashing 5,000 jobs, or nearly 3 percent of its global workforce, as it seeks to boost profitability by reshaping its computer-chip business and its overseas operations, the Associated Press reported. Fuji ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 02/08/2013 - 00:11 - 0 comments

The Bank of Japan appears to have accomplished a tactical masterstroke in giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an ambitious inflation target and an "open ended" commitment to buying assets, without expending any of its policy firepower, Reuters rep ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 01/24/2013 - 01:05 - 0 comments