As part of a larger restructuring effort, Japan 's Renesas Electronics ( RNECY.PK ) enters into a chip production tie-up with Taiwan Semiconductor ( TSM ), the world's …
Tokyo Electric Power ( TKECY.PK ) become the first utility to hike power rates for its customers in response to Japan 's looming power crisis . The utility behemoth plans to raise rates for some heavy users by 12% starting in July, while the …
TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp plans to tie up with Taiwan's TSMC in microchip production, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Thursday.
TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Japan 's Nikkei average is expected to open higher on Thursday, retracing some of the previous session's sharp fall as U.S. stocks …
TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through nine foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Thursday. Japanese Stocks: BUY 14.0 million shares SELL 17.1 million shares …
PARIS, May 23 (Reuters) - Fast Retailing's Uniqlo has signed tennis star Novak Djokovic to a five-year contract in an attempt to increase its brand appeal among European and U.S.-based shoppers as the company looks to expand outside its home market of Japan .
GENEVA (Reuters) - Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan , but infants in one town appear to be at a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
* Experts report on Japan 's radiation levels after accident
NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Investors have ducked for cover in the Japanese yen during the latest chapter of Europe's debt crisis, but the options market views the U.S. dollar as a safer bet.
NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - The hunt for yield in a low-interest-rate world is driving investors into markets such as U.S. junk bonds and Japanese stocks as they shrug off the risk the global...