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NHK
11 hours ago
- Health
- NHK
One person dies from suspected heatstroke in Japan, 100 hospitalized in Tokyo
The heatwave gripping Japan has turned deadly. Officials in the central prefecture of Gifu say one person has died from suspected heatstroke. A 90-year-old man was found lying in a field in the town of Ikeda on Thursday afternoon. He was rushed to a hospital but later pronounced dead. Meanwhile, Tokyo Fire Department officials say that as of 9 p.m. on Thursday, 100 people in the capital aged between 11 and 97 had been taken to hospital during the day for suspected symptoms of heatstroke. The officials say one of them is in critical condition while two others are in serious condition. The Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Examiner's Office says two people in their 70s who died in the capital this month are believed to have suffered heatstroke. It says they were not using air conditioners at the time of their deaths.
Business Recorder
09-06-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
JGB yields track US peers higher after resilient labour data
TOKYO: Japanese government bond yields rose on Monday, buoyed by an advance for US Treasury yields after resilient labour market data on Friday saw traders pare back bets for a near-term Federal Reserve interest rate cut. The 10-year JGB yield rose 1.5 basis points (bps) to 1.470% as of 0515 GMT. The two-year JGB yield also added 1.5 bps to 0.775%, while the five-year yield climbed 2 bps to 1.030%. That's after 10-year Treasury yields jumped 11.5 bps on Friday as a rise in non-farm payrolls for May and gains for wages topped economist estimates. Traders now see 63% odds of a Fed cut by September, down from 74% before the jobs data. Benchmark 10-year JGB futures fell 0.18 yen to 139.17 yen. Yields rise when bond prices fall. The 20-year JGB yield added 2.5 bps to 2.355%, and 30-year yield advanced 3.5 bps to 2.910%. For those super-long bonds, yields remained a long way from last month's peaks: a quarter-century high of 2.600% for 20-year JGBs and a record 3.185% for 30-year JGBs. Investors shied away from the longest-dated securities amid growing angst about developed-nation deficits, including in Japan, which were later exacerbated by poor results at super-long JGB auctions. However, a turning point for the market came when Japan's finance ministry pledged to examine reduced issuance of super-long debt, according to Yunosuke Ikeda, chief macro strategist at Nomura. Japan 30-year bond auction bid-to-cover ratio 2.92, lowest since December 2023 Now, in the event of a poor JGB auction, investors still buy the bonds in the belief that the finance ministry will pare issuance by even more. 'A kind of built-in stabilization system is at work,' Ikeda said. 'In that sense, we can say the worst period is over.'
Business Insider
01-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Goldman Sachs Keeps Their Hold Rating on Mitsui Chemicals (MITUF)
Goldman Sachs analyst Atsushi Ikeda maintained a Hold rating on Mitsui Chemicals (MITUF – Research Report) yesterday and set a price target of Yen4,000.00. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter According to TipRanks, Ikeda is ranked #7707 out of 9552 analysts. The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for Mitsui Chemicals with a $28.46 average price target. Based on Mitsui Chemicals' latest earnings release for the quarter ending March 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $470.33 billion and a GAAP net loss of $5.47 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $475.21 billion and had a net profit of $12.74 billion
Business Insider
25-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Analysts Conflicted on These Technology Names: Affirm Holdings (AFRM), Entegris (ENTG) and Amplitude (AMPL)
Companies in the Technology sector have received a lot of coverage today as analysts weigh in on Affirm Holdings (AFRM – Research Report), Entegris (ENTG – Research Report) and Amplitude (AMPL – Research Report). Confident Investing Starts Here: Affirm Holdings (AFRM) Seaport Global analyst Jeff Cantwell maintained a Hold rating on Affirm Holdings on May 10. The company's shares closed last Friday at $49.30. According to Cantwell is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 11.1% and a 57.6% success rate. Cantwell covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Holdings, Shift4 Payments, and ACI Worldwide. Affirm Holdings has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $67.18, implying a 42.1% upside from current levels. In a report issued on May 9, Morgan Stanley also maintained a Hold rating on the stock with a $60.00 price target. Entegris (ENTG) In a report issued on May 8, Bhavesh Lodaya from BMO Capital reiterated a Buy rating on Entegris, with a price target of $100.00. The company's shares closed last Friday at $72.34. According to Lodaya is ranked #4146 out of 9562 analysts. Entegris has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $101.29, implying a 44.0% upside from current levels. In a report issued on May 7, Needham also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $100.00 price target. Amplitude (AMPL) In a report issued on May 8, Koji Ikeda from Bank of America Securities reiterated a Buy rating on Amplitude, with a price target of $13.00. The company's shares closed last Friday at $12.04. According to Ikeda is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 12.6% and a 58.4% success rate. Ikeda covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Zeta Global Holdings Corp, Onestream, Inc. Class A, and ZoomInfo Technologies. Amplitude has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $13.44, which is a 12.1% upside from current levels. In a report issued on April 23, Piper Sandler also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $14.00 price target.
The Mainichi
06-05-2025
- General
- The Mainichi
Hibakusha poet who also blamed Hiroshima for atomic bombing leaves powerful message
HIROSHIMA -- "Even if the first time was a mistake, the second time is betrayal. Don't forget our pledge to the dead." These words were repeated by poet Sadako Kurihara (1913-2005), who survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing and consistently condemned the crime of nuclear weapons. Masahiko Ikeda, 78, who studies Kurihara's handwritten manuscripts and notes, describes her as someone who "stubbornly thought about peace and stayed true to her principles." A room in a building near Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park is packed with materials about Kurihara. Ikeda, secretary-general of the citizens group Association for Preservation of Literary Materials of Hiroshima, has been organizing more than 100 documents he inherited in 2023 when Kurihara's former home was demolished. Some notes are scrawled hastily on notebooks and the backs of flyers, making them hard to decipher. "She was not only a poet -- she also made incisive statements as a thinker. We have to make sure everyone can read her words," Ikeda said, sometimes going as far as producing clean copies to preserve traces of her thoughts that never made it into published books or pamphlets for successive generations. Born on the outskirts of Hiroshima, Kurihara married Tadaichi Kurihara, an anarchist, in 1931. Despite suppression of their beliefs and living in poverty, she continued to write antiwar poetry throughout World War II. On Aug. 6, 1945, at age 32, Kurihara became a hibakusha survivor of the atomic bombing while in the former town of Gion (now Asaminami Ward), about 4 kilometers from the hypocenter. Three days later, she went to central Hiroshima to retrieve the body of a schoolgirl neighbor who had died from radiation, and witnessed the devastation firsthand. The year after Japan's defeat, Kurihara launched a journal with her husband and others, devoting herself to her creative work. She not only told of the victims' suffering -- she also addressed Hiroshima's responsibility as a military city before the war. In her 1972 poem, "When We Say Hiroshima," she wrote: "That we may say 'Hiroshima' and hear in reply, gently, 'Ah, Hiroshima,' we first must wash the blood off our own hands." Ikeda shared his view that, "As an A-bomb survivor, it was groundbreaking that she was quick to hold Hiroshima responsible for the bombing." Kurihara also participated in nuclear abolition and pro-constitution campaigns, joining sit-ins to protest every time a nuclear test was conducted. In 1991, even as threatening phone calls and letters came to her home after joining demonstrations against overseas dispatches of the Self-Defense Forces, she never wavered. Why did she hold fast to her antiwar and antinuclear stances throughout her life? Many hibakusha writers from Hiroshima, such as Tamiki Hara, Sankichi Toge and Yoko Ota, died young. Ikeda said of Kurihara, who lived to 92, "She had the determination that she must take up the final baton of atomic bomb literature and keep running. She never stopped questioning what Hiroshima meant to the very end." Kazuko Kojima, 79, an atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima's Minami Ward, still treasures a letter she received from Kurihara in her later years. The letter offers warm words: "You are the one testifying to Hiroshima's potential. Please, live on in good health forever." Kojima was the real-life inspiration for the newborn baby depicted in Kurihara's representative poem, "Umashimenkana" (Bringing Forth New Life), which describes a child coming into the world in a basement crowded with wounded people just after the bombing. Despite receiving media attention through the poem, Kojima did not initially become active in peace movements. When she confided, "I feel guilty for not being able to do anything," Kurihara comforted her like a mother: "Just the fact that you are living and healthy is enough. So, it's OK." Buoyed by these words, Kojima now values the many connections born from "Umashimenkana" and has joined activities as a result. In 2022, she organized an exhibit in Hiroshima featuring Kurihara's handwritten manuscripts with the help of a midwife friend. This January, she registered A-bomb testimonies of her mother and others at the National Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima's Naka Ward. Did Kurihara entrust hope to Kojima, the child born amid the ruins? One of her letters continued, "I have been happy because I have been able to live my life without any regrets even if I die at any time. Meeting you has made me live strongly." (Japanese original by Kana Nemoto, Hiroshima Bureau)
