Japan's factory stockpiles rose for the first time since February, and carmakers drove it
METI's June industrial production figures show inventories turning up after three months of decline, with motor vehicles the largest single contributor — a reversal from May.
Kumamoto earthquake: Japan’s fire agency confirms three deaths and says 13 more are under investigation
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency’s seventeenth bulletin puts the verified toll at three, names the two towns, and then records separately that Kumamoto fire departments are reporting 13 further deaths not yet counted. Both numbers are in the same three-page document.
Kumamoto earthquake: Japan puts 354,000 people under its highest evacuation orders as two agencies differ on the magnitude
A Shindo 7 quake struck Kumamoto Prefecture at 16:27 local time. Japan’s fire agency had 354,284 people under its two highest evacuation levels by midnight, with rescues still running at a collapsed building.
Super Typhoon Bavi Barrels Toward Guam and Okinawa
Typhoon Bavi strengthened into a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon in the western Pacific, threatening Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands around July 6 before a forecast approach to Okinawa and Japan's Sakishima Islands later in the week.
Japanese yen sinks to 40-year low past 162 to the dollar as Tokyo weighs intervention
The yen fell to about 162.4 per dollar on Tuesday, its weakest since 1986, as a wide US-Japan rate gap kept the carry trade alive and Japan's finance minister warned of 'decisive' action against the slide.
Earlier coverage
- Japan's Takaichi to make first Europe trip for G7 summit in France
- Tropical Storm Jangmi prompts evacuation advisories for 800,000 in Japan
- Takaichi unveils $19bn fuel-relief package while pledging no new borrowing as the BOJ is squeezed
- Takaichi exempts 17 strategic sectors from three-year fiscal cap in growth investment overhaul
- Tokyo governor Koike pitches green-hydrogen city network from Astana
- Takaichi unveils $19 billion extra budget to cushion fuel and import costs
- Japan’s Takaichi heads to Seoul as Tokyo deepens regional security ties
- OECD calls Takaichi's zero food-tax plan "blunt and costly" as Tokyo misses fiscal target again
- Bessent to meet Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday before Seoul-Beijing leg
- Japan's METI confirms late-May Moscow delegation to safeguard corporate assets
- Japan suspected of second yen-buying intervention in a week