Yasutaka Tamura

The world’s top hedge funds are shaking up the closed community that was, for a time, a sleepy backwater of global finance.

Institutional investors offered diverging opinions on how quickly the Bank of Japan should pare back its bond buying Wednesday, according to people who attended the meeting, a day after the nation's megabanks called for sweeping cuts.

Tokyo Electron Ltd. shares tumbled by the most in three months after Bloomberg reported US discussions about using its most severe trade restrictions to curb China’s access to advanced semiconductor technology. The Nikkei stock gage also slid, reversing earlier gains.

The head of Japan Exchange Group is credited with turning Tokyo into one of the world’s top-performing equity markets.

The head of Japan Exchange Group is credited with turning Tokyo into one of the world's top-performing equity markets.

The Bank of Japan is likely to stand pat on interest rates for longer in a boost to the nation's equities, according to BlackRock Inc., which has a high conviction investment view on Japanese stocks.

(Bloomberg) -- Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average entered a technical correction as an AI-driven rally in technology shares went into reverse and concerns grew that the Bank of Japan may be poised to hike interest rates.

The developer of an innovative job matchmaking app helping Japan tackle its severe labor shortage goes public Friday following the nation's largest initial public offering so far this year.

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