The Japanese yen climbed as much as 0.8% against the dollar on Wednesday, reflecting investors' belief that the Fed and BoJ are at different stages of their monetary policy cycles. When Japan's ...
A swath of central banks followed the Federal Reserve in issuing interest-rate decisions, though several held policy steady: The Bank of England held rates at 5%, as expected. Like the European ...
On August 9, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress Bockscar opened her bomb bay doors in the skies over Nagasaki, a heavily Catholic city in Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Out of Bockscar’s belly slipped a ...
The US is far from the only country where people are fed up with housing costs, per a Gallup survey. Japan is the only rich country where more than 70% of respondents were satisfied with housing.