Shinzo Abe

Japan remains a very cheap equity market versus global peers

Following the election, the government will need to find ways to revive the lackluster economy and tackle inflation

Abe is known as a key supporter of BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s policy of maintaining rock-bottom interest rates

"For this to happen during an election, which is the foundation of democracy is unforgivable. I condemn it."

Market watchers are eyeing what the election of the unassuming son of a strawberry farmer means for the country’s equity markets.

A farmer’s son long known as Abe’s back-room fixer, Suga won 377 of the 535 available votes Monday, the LDP said.

The emergence of Yoshihide Suga as the leading candidate to replace Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggests Japan will stick to its economic strategy of massive monetary stimulus.

(July 18): When members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family visited Japan last September and again in March, the Asian country made sure at least one message got through: Please list Saudi Aramco in Tokyo.

SINGAPORE (Feb 22): Sheldon Adelson – one of the world’s richest men and notably among the biggest funders of Donald Trump’s US presidency campaign – has pledged to spend up to US$10 billion ($14.2 billion) on building a casino facility in Japan,

HONG KONG (Feb 15): Everything old is new again when it comes to trade deals.