Japan increased its defence budget for the upcoming financial year in response to heightened regional tensions with China, Nikkei said

Both carmakers gained from a plunge in the yen in October last year, even as a shortage of chips and soaring costs of raw materials squeezed global carmakers

"The United States is being strict, but there is a question of whether we have to exactly match that," said former economy minister Akira Amari.

No financial details were disclosed on the valuation of the business on Monday, which some sources have indicated could be up to 10 billion euros

Japan is a major supplier of machines used to make leading-edge semiconductors that could come under new restrictions

Young women are particularly wary of traditional childcare roles in Japan which require men to stay at work and women to stay at home, The Guardian said

For the whole of 2022, Japan logged a trade deficit of 19.97 trillion yen, the second straight annual shortfall and the biggest in more than four decades

Coinbase's decision to exit comes only a few weeks after rival exchange Kraken said it, too, would cease its operations in the country

Japan's new policy comes after seeing Russian missile strikes target Ukraine's nuclear power plants and grids over the last year

Mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies were the highest recorded last year since data was first tracked in 1985

The Taiwanese company is already building a $8.6 billion chip facility in the country as part of efforts to diversify its production base

Japan has set a new target for 20% of the country's energy coming from nuclear power by 2030, AP News says