Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration will take “drastic” measures to revitalize the economy, Finance Minister Taro Aso pledged Thursday, suggesting that previous policies had been insufficient to beat back more than a decade of deflation. “Deflation is a deep-rooted problem that has undermined the ...
Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and new South Korean President Park Geun Hye agreed Monday that the new governments in both countries should closely cooperate in a future-oriented manner, Aso told reporters. In a meeting in Seoul, Park also indicated to the former prime ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration plans to dispatch Finance Minister Taro Aso to Monday’s inauguration ceremony for incoming South Korean President Park Geun Hye, but will also send an official to a controversial ceremony dealing with Takeshima, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday. ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday the government has no intention of buying foreign bonds through a fund with the Bank of Japan, comments that caused the yen to strengthen. “We don’t intend to buy foreign bonds,” Aso told reporters in Tokyo, when asked ...
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 financial leaders’ meeting, Finance Minister Taro Aso found himself sought out by many of his counterparts, who expressed a keen interest in Japan’s economic and monetary policies, a government source said. Attending his first G-20 gathering ...
The pace of the yen’s weakening has been too swift, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, speaking a week before a meeting of global finance chiefs at which Japan’s currency policy is expected to come under the microscope. Aso’s comments to reporters in Tokyo on ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso on Monday asked the opposition for prompt cooperation in passing the bill on the supplementary budget to “solidify the recovery of Japan’s economy.” Touching on the economy during his financial policy speech to the Diet, Aso repeated that Japan is ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso countered Monday the rising voices of criticism from the international community over the weakening yen. “Petty complaints about the depreciation of the yen by ¥10 or ¥15 at the most is wrong and illogical,” Aso, also deputy prime minister, said ...
Japan's controversial new economic policy emerged as one of the hot topics at this year's Davos forum, with talk of currency wars and strong rebuttals from Japanese officials.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso caused a stir Monday in talks on social security reforms when he said the medical system should be changed so that the many terminal patients now using “government money” for expensive treatment “can quickly pass away.” ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be the face of the new government led by Liberal Democratic Party, but Finance Minister Taro Aso is also a force in the LDP to be reckoned with. In fact, only a few politicians today can claim to have ...
Members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet hinted Friday that the Bank of Japan is moving closer to setting a 2 percent inflation target in a joint statement on policy coordination aimed at conquering deflation. “Things are going in a good direction,” economic and ...
