Reuters boosts Japanese news with Kyodo content

Starting on 1 April, the Japanese News Service’s 12,000 subscribers will receive an additional 800 daily headlines. The new content will include deeper coverage of market regulators in Japan and internationally, emerging markets, Asian loan markets and Japanese politics, as well as faster real-time delivery of major macroeconomic data and announcements from the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. The partnership with Kyodo will also ensure expanded coverage of the Japanese prime minister’s office and key ministries.

“We are going through dramatic change in financial markets,” said Mark Smith, Thomson Reuters’ markets senior company officer in Japan. ”Our customers require now more than ever trusted, relevant and timely news and analysis of domestic and international events. We see a tremendous opportunity to meet this increasing demand.”

Reuters opened its first office in Japan in 1872. Reuters Japanese News was launched in 1985 as ReuterScoop, one of a number of local language news services. ■