TOKYO - Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steelmaker, posted on Thursday an 18% drop in nine-month net profit to 362 billion yen ($2.4 billion) amid sluggish steel demand in Japan and overseas.

Asian shares are trading mostly higher after a Wall Street rally that followed profit reports from major companies.

The yen climbed to an eight-week top versus the U.S. dollar on Thursday after a Bank of Japan policy board member advocated ...

Japan's Mitsubishi Corp took a 52.2 billion yen ($342.4 million) impairment charge on its domestic offshore wind projects in the nine-month period ended in December, it said on Thursday. The trading ...