Tokyo Informer

Advantest's Matsuno Says Orders Will Increase 20% This Quarter Advantest Corp. (6857), the world's largest producer of semiconductor-testing devices, rose the most in 10 months in Tokyo trading after saying new orders may rise 20 percent this quarter from the previous three months. Orders will increase to about 30 … Full News here – Read [...]

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Tokyo court orders state to pay ¥1 billion to compensate asbestos victims The Tokyo District Court ordered the central government Wednesday to pay ¥1.06 billion in redress on behalf of workers who contracted asbestos-related diseases such as lung cancer at construction sites due to insufficient official countermeasures, but … Full News here – Read more [...]

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Japan Current-Account Surplus Shrinks 63% as Machine Orders Drop The excess in the widest measure of trade shrank 63 percent from a year earlier to 215.1 billion yen ($ 2.7 billion), the Ministry of Finance said in Tokyo today. The median estimate of 24 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a surplus of 493.1 [...]

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