TOKYO -- Seven & i Holdings will postpone the listing of North American convenience store unit 7-Eleven Inc. (SEI) to fiscal 2027 at the earliest under plans announced Thursday, with the unit's poor performance leading the Japanese parent to push back a debut that could have come this year.

TOKYO -- Kura Sushi USA's 17% drop on New York's Nasdaq market on Wednesday came despite a sharp market rally spurred by the surprise U.S.-Iran ceasefire, highlighting the pressures facing sushi restaurant operators amid geopolitical uncertainty, higher fuel costs and softening consumer sentiment.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on Wednesday that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire in a 40-day war that began after U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28.

TOKYO -- Nikkei and JPX Market Innovation & Research will remove Mitsubishi Logisnext from the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 on April 15, after the stock was designated as "to be delisted" by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

No company will be added to replace Mitsubishi Logisnext on that day. The number of constituents will return to 400 in August, when the next periodic review is conducted.

Greetings from Yifan, here in the sunny and unseasonably hot San Francisco Bay Area. I'll be taking you through this week's #techAsia newsletter.

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