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TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Bank of Japan's latest round of monetary easing has important implications for markets, but people close to the bank say the political leverage that an improving economy gives to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government may be more important in the long run.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--When Goldman Sachs Asset Management Chairman Jim O'Neill recently held a seminar in Tokyo on April 18 to mark his retirement, he made a prescient remark.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Foreign investors have been on a Japanese-equity shopping spree, racking up about 8 trillion yen in net buying since November, but they are not simply grabbing anything on the shelves.