Automakers like Honda Motor Co and the Toyota-Daihatsu group have a problem: the smallest cars they make are very big in Japan - and only Japan.
Japan's long-term interest rates were very stable, with the country's bond market volatility reduced, despite rises in U.S. and European yields, the Bank of Japan said.
No policy action expected after massive April stimulus though BOJ will revise up assessment, signal economic recovery.
The Fund cuts global growth forecast to 3.1% and warns it could slow further.
Japanese bank lending marked its biggest annual increase in four years in June.
Measures comes in response to global scrutiny on interbank rate setting though no wrongdoing has been found in Tokyo interbank rate so far.
Last hurdle in the Japanese company's drawn-out battle to take control of the No. 3 U.S. wireless provider reportedly cleared.
Disgraced former Olympus chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and two other executives receive suspended sentences for their role in an accounting fraud
May be Japan's last big initial public offering this year.
Japan's Nikkei touches highest level in nearly 5 weeks. Manufacturing data in U.S. and Europe offset China disappointment
