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Japan's cosmetic-medicine job postings reached 2,627 in April, 6.2 times the April 2019 count, Frog data reported by Nikkei show. Doctors there earn about 420,000 yen a month more than peers, a premium that fits a drain on essential specialties without measuring one.
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NTT Docomo Business now runs more than 200 'AI boss' replicas of its managers across all 37 of its organisations, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. Each one reads drafts before the real manager does, so the program pays only if chiefs spend less time on review.
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Japan pledged the $550 billion in response to American tariff measures. Six months on it is what Takaichi brings to a summit whose agenda also includes the cost of US bases, with four of the five decided projects in oil and power.
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Japan's largest life insurer wants 2 trillion yen of project finance on the books by fiscal 2035, double last year's overseas total. The reason to lend dollars out of a yen book is a spread above two points.
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The Bank of Japan's policy rate is at a 31-year high and the yen still weakened into the 158 range after the decision. Word of a government rate check around midnight on the 19th brought it back to 156, with the holiday running to the 23rd.
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ChangXin's second-quarter margin on commodity DDR5 came in above both Korean makers, in a Nihon Keizai Shimbun analysis, a year after the Chinese firm was losing money on the same product. The price behind it was set by SK hynix and Samsung.
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The 10-year JGB touched 3.027% before slipping back into the 2.9% range, while 40-year paper trades near 93 yen per 100 of face and insurers are asking their asset managers how to limit valuation losses.
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The FSA's Q&A revision leaves at least three US managers holding Kioxia 2x filings with no compliant route to Japanese retail money, roughly three months after Korea halted new listings of the same product class.
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Seniority pay is being carved up rather than scrapped, with ring-fenced schemes at SOMPO, MUFG and Fujitsu. The cost shows up in salary lines and in 35% search fees.
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SpaceX alone took 42% of global IPO money in the first half. For everyone else, the window is narrower than the headline number suggests, and the 30-year Treasury is at 5.32%.
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