The estimated number of visitors to Japan in July jumped 19.7 percent from a year before to an all-time monthly high of 2.297 million, thanks in part to robust travel demand in the summer holiday season, data from a government agency showed Wednesday.
A member of the founding family of major oil wholesaler Idemitsu Kosan Co. has bought shares in industry peer Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. in an attempt to block the two firms' planned merger.
A foreign policy adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Japan’s economic cooperation with Russia and progress in the two countries’ long-standing territorial dispute are totally unrelated, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.
Japanese companies’ direct investments in China in 2015 decreased 25.2 percent from the year before, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said Wednesday.
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