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Two executives at Japan’s Denso Corp. agreed to serve U.S. jail terms for conspiring to fix prices of components sold to Toyota Motor Corp. as part of an antitrust probe into the industry, the Justice Department said.
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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation may help fund Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s proposed sale of overseas energy assets as the operator of the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant seeks to shore up its finances.
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Japan’s economy may have expanded at the slowest pace in three quarters, adding to evidence the global recovery is faltering and undermining Prime Minister Naoto Kan ’s efforts to reduce the world’s largest public debt .
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Japan’s reconstruction-fueled rebound waned in the second quarter as consumer spending growth almost stalled and export gains diminished, increasing the chance for monetary and fiscal stimulus.
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Japan reported a wider-than-expected trade deficit in July as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and a slowdown in China dragged down exports and higher oil prices boosted imports.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda risks stalling the economy by pushing through a higher sales tax that may damp consumption even as it aids efforts to tame the world’s largest debt burden.
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Japan’s consumer prices fell at a faster pace in April as the government cut high school tuition fees as part of a pledge to assist households.
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Japan’s producer prices rose for a second month in June, driven by an increase in commodity costs that may do little to arrest deflation.
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Hiroshi Watanabe, a former top currency official of the Japanese government and now chief executive officer of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, comments on the policy of currency intervention.
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Japan escalated its campaign to convince investors that the nation’s post-earthquake challenges mean they shouldn’t pile into the yen as a haven from the turmoil over U.S. and European debt.
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