Takashi Nakamichi was a senior correspondent at the Tokyo bureau of The Wall Street Journal, covering the Bank of Japan and the Japanese Ministry of Finance.

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“We are so powerless,” said Mori. “It’s no use.” — Bloomberg Aya Wagatsuma, Ryo Horiuchi and Takashi Nakamichi write for Bloomberg. The views expressed here are the writers’ own.

Criminals are hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world. The wave of fraudulent trading has reached ¥100 billion ($710 million) since it ...

A talent war is intensifying in the yen rates space, as banks and hedge funds snap up seasoned traders after the biggest ...