Kobe Steel Ltd, at the center of a data-falsification scandal that has shaken Japan’s manufacturing industry, admitted for the first...
Articles by Osamu Tsukimori
Global shipping insurers have devised a way to ensure nearly full coverage for Iranian oil exports from next month after...
Ship insurers have stepped in to help plug a shortfall in cover for transporting Iranian oil resulting from the fact...

Japanese crude buyers are set to switch back to private insurance providers for transportation of Iranian oil, after relief from...
Iran’s crude oil exports in March may plunge by a quarter from a month earlier to the lowest since tight...

Iran is shipping oil to China, its top buyer, despite a row over freight terms, and Japan has taken steps...
Japanese insurers are expanding their maritime coverage to allow more domestic tankers to transport Iranian crude, as Tokyo looks to...
Japan’s lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude...
Marine insurance, or lack of it, may yet turn out to be the most effective sanction used by Western nations...
Japanese insurers are warning ship owners that they will only cover one tanker at a time carrying Iranian crude oil...