Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
22
CLOUDS AND SUN
For Jennifer Rubin's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
The U.S. Republican Party made a big mistake when its national committee, struggling to broaden GOP appeal, approved a resolution against same-sex marriage.
The lesson from the Rand Paul filibuster is that it pays to challenge the president to live up to his claim of overseeing the "most transparent administration in history.
Social conservatives who oppose gay marriage have suffered a series of losses as voters have embraced gay marriage in state referendums and in public polling. The argument that gay marriage “harms” heterosexual marriage is not one that has found resonance with most Americans. That ...
Maybe it was simple pandering when U.S. President Barack Obama told an interviewer at the Spanish-language TV network Univision that his biggest failure was in not getting comprehensive immigration reform. But, come to think of it, wasn’t it equally weird to name “failing to ...
There are a lot of pundits here in Tampa with no real politics to report on. So I thought now would be a good idea to do some explaining about the odd natives (well, natives for only a few days), whom the punditocracy has ...