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.
National | NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS Jun 1, 2013
Somalia seeks return to global fold
by Eric Johnston
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has told Japan’s and Africa’s leaders that his country faces four challenges as it struggles to become a constructive member of the global community again after decades of civil war and anarchy. Meeting on the eve of the fifth ...
National | NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS Jun 1, 2013
TICAD's to-do list extensive, 20 years on
by Jun Hongo
Looking back on the Tokyo International Conference on African Development and its achievements over the past 20 years, Masaki Inaba touched on the number of flights that now directly connect Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. “Korean Air provides flights straight from Seoul to Kenya. Ethiopian ...
Corporate | NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS May 31, 2013
From base of social pyramid, only way is up
by Hiroko Nakata
Third in a series In a small village in northwest Senegal, residents depend on a treatment plant to clean enough of the nearby muddy river to provide them with potable water. It takes a whole day for the blue machine with several attached tanks ...
National | NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS May 30, 2013
China biggest rival as Japan seeks to tap African resources
by Eric Johnston
When the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami led to three core meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, an atomic calamity that effectively put the nation’s remaining 50 reactors out of action, Japan was suddenly faced with an energy crisis unseen since ...
National | NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS May 29, 2013
Coming together to move Africa forward
by Mizuho Aoki
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development is a great opportunity for Japan to expand its business in Africa, as the resource-rich continent begins to shed its dependence on aid to emerge as an attractive consumer market and a swelling population, according to the ...
National | NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS May 29, 2013
Envoy to investors: Look outside conflict box, think fast
by Ayako Mie
The government should encourage Japan’s private sector to invest more money and at a faster pace in Africa despite the security concerns that have plagued the continent, Ethiopian Ambassador Markos Tekle Rike said ahead of the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, which ...