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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
Chief negotiators from the 12 countries thrashing out the Trans-Pacific Partnership worked on last-minute preparations Wednesday before their ministers and leaders gather in Bali, Indonesia, with the aim of reaching a basic agreement on the free trade pact. “We have been able to arrange what we will report to the ...
The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on ...
China plans to join Japan, the United States and Europe in negotiations to liberalize the services trade, according to sources. ...
Nintendo said Wednesday it will stop making its basic Wii game console for the Japanese market, but will keep producing it internationally. The move to abandon the venerable machine, which competes with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3, will allow Nintendo to focus ...
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met the news media after deciding to raise the consumption tax next April, he stressed that his administration can pursue economic growth and fiscal discipline at the same time. The declaration Tuesday, which almost sounded as if he was ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry set up an office Wednesday to ensure small firms can raise the prices of their products supplied to larger companies after the 5 percent sales tax is raised to 8 percent in April, as decided by Prime ...
Automakers rolled out their advanced driving technologies and IT-equipped vehicles for the opening of Japan’s major high-tech fair Tuesday. More carmakers are joining electronics companies at the CEATEC Japan exhibition this year as vehicles increasingly employ advanced information technology. Honda Motor Co. and Mazda ...
The transport ministry said Wednesday that All Nippon Airways Co. will receive 11 slots in the expanded international flight schedule next March at Tokyo’s Haneda airport while Japan Airlines Co. will get five. ANA has been lobbying for a “fair” allocation of the new ...
Softbank Mobile Corp. said that due to a computer programming error, it reported 63,133 customers as “delinquent” to a credit information agency even though they were making installment payments for their mobile phones on time. Credit card companies and financial institutions inquired with the ...
At around noon on a recent weekday, the Roppongi branch of Shamrock by Abbot Choice, a Tokyo-based Irish-style pub chain, had a bustling lunchtime crowd. Koichiro Tawa reached for a menu and ordered a hamburger special — with melting cheese, a green salad and ...
After unleashing an energy revolution in the United States, shale gas and oil are now becoming energy game changers worldwide, a break with the past whose ramifications are still unclear.
The dollar slid below ¥97.50 in Tokyo trading Wednesday on risk-averse sentiment fueled by stock price falls as well as the continued standstill in the U.S. Congress. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥97.36-38, off from ¥97.91-93 at the same time Tuesday. The ...
Fresh moose tracks dot the ground where plans are afoot to dig for oil. Quebec’s largest energy firm, Petrolia, is eyeing an estimated 40 billion barrels of oil beneath the surface of Anticosti Island, an ecological gem at the mouth of St. Lawrence River. ...
The Nikkei average tumbled to the lowest closing level in more than three weeks Wednesday, pressured by the yen’s rise and futures-led selling amid uncertainty over the U.S. fiscal deadlock. The Nikkei 225 closed down 314.23 points, or 2.17 percent, at 14,170.49, the lowest ...
This might seem a bizarre place for a battle over energy policy in Britain. A quaint village with a single pub, a well-attended tea room and a population of about 2,000, Balcombe has become the focal point of a heated debate over hydraulic fracturing, ...