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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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The worst prime minister for Japanese government bonds in almost two decades is poised to return, ousting the best since 2006. Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to replace Yoshihiko Noda in Sunday’s general election, oversaw a 1.2 percent gain when he was in office for ...
The Bank of Japan should reject calls for it to buy foreign currency bonds to weaken the yen because such a move would hurt its independence, said Makoto Utsumi, a former top currency official. Such purchases would be “akin to currency intervention and wouldn’t ...
Japan should issue more bonds to help boost the economy instead of attempting tax hikes, which might stifle a recovery, said Eisuke Sakakibara, a former Finance Ministry official. “The government shouldn’t raise taxes when economic conditions are bad,” Sakakibara, now a professor at Aoyama ...
Finance Minister Jun Azumi’s efforts to weaken the yen are being foiled, in part, by U.S. Treasurys. Finance Ministry data released Tuesday showed Japan conducted an unannounced intervention worth ¥1.02 trillion during the first four days of November, as part of ¥14.3 trillion worth ...