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Kombu is used extensively in Japanese cuisines as one of the three main ingredients needed to make dashi, a soup stock. Konbu dashi is made by putting either whole dried or powdered kombu in cold water and heating it to near-boiling. The softened kombu is commonly eaten after cooking or is sliced and used to make tsukudani, a dish that is ...
Matsuri float, also known as a dashi or sansha, is a type of float that is either pulled or carried during a festival in Japan. It is a general term used to refer to any float that is used for this purpose. Dashi are one of three large structures at Japanese festivals alongside Yatai, and Mikoshi. [1]
Vernal Equinox Day (春分の日, Shunbun no Hi) is a public holiday in Japan that occurs on the date of the Northward equinox in Japan Standard Time (the vernal equinox can occur on different dates in different time-zones), usually March 20 or 21. The date of the holiday is not officially declared until February of the previous year, due to ...
Japan is a key source of risks to global markets in the coming year, BCA Research says. Rising Japanese bond yields are a key risk for tech stocks, the firm said.
The stock market is not the economy—just look at what’s happening in Japan. Japan’s equity markets broke a record on Thursday, when the Nikkei 225 closed at 39,098.68.
The last couple of years have been strong for the stock market, with the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) surging by just over 70% since late 2022, as of this writing. Just over 30% of U.S. investors are ...
Nikkei 225 Index. The Nikkei 225, or the Nikkei Stock Average (Japanese: 日経平均株価, Hepburn: Nikkei heikin kabuka), more commonly called the Nikkei or the Nikkei index [1] [2] (/ ˈ n ɪ k eɪ, ˈ n iː-, n ɪ ˈ k eɪ /), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
The Nikkei 225 has now erased its gains to date, reversing a stock market rally that sent the Japanese index past a 34-year-old record earlier this year. Analysts think the sell-off will continue.