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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 ...
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 ...
Japan Airlines Co. and ANA Holdings Inc.’s fight over additional slots at Tokyo’s Haneda airport is widening to include global airline partnerships seeking access to fly businesspeople right into the heart of the capital. Haneda, Asia’s second-busiest airport, is set to gain about 40 ...
A year after relisting on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan Airlines Co. is overwhelming long-time rival ANA Holdings Inc. in profit terms. Thursday marked the first year anniversary of JAL’s return to the first section of the TSE, and the airline has regained its ...
ANA Holdings Inc., whose fleet is dominated by Boeing Co. aircraft, will soon decide on placing an order for 25 jets, pitting the newest wide-body models of Airbus SAS and Boeing against each other. “It’s getting close to the time we need to make ...
ANA Holdings Inc. will buy a 49 percent stake in Myanmar's Asian Wings Airways Ltd., becoming the latest firm to expand in the Southeast Asian nation.
After spending a month and a half sifting through 200 names for its new budget airline, ANA Holdings Inc. decided on the plainest one: Vanilla Air. “Vanilla is loved by everyone in the world,” Tomonori Ishii, president of the new airline based at Narita ...
All Nippon Airways Co. plans to stop hiring flight attendants on a contract basis and make all of them regular employees to secure quality workers to offer better services amid intensified competition.
All Nippon Airways Co. delayed a Wednesday flight from Tokyo’s Haneda airport to Frankfurt for about 1 hour and 40 minutes due to a problem in the wiring of a fire extinguisher for an engine on one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner twin-jets. ANA ...
ANA Holdings Inc. said its AirAsia Japan low-cost airline unit will end operations at the end of October and restart under a different name around year’s end. The reinstituted budget carrier will remain based at Narita International Airport and Central Japan International Airport in ...
All Nippon Airways said Tuesday it swung into a loss for the April-June quarter as fuel costs soared and problems with its fleet of Boeing Dreamliners weighed on results. ANA lost ¥6.6 billion, reversing a small profit from a year earlier, while revenue climbed ...
Boeing Co. has asked airlines to inspect emergency locator transmitter beacons on a range of planes after ANA Holdings Inc. and United Airlines found faults in the devices on 787s linked to a fire in a parked Dreamliner. The aircraft maker asked operators to ...
Japan Airlines Co. on Monday launched a new daily round-trip service from Narita airport to Helsinki using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. JAL had planned to start flying to the Finnish capital on Feb. 25 using the fuel-efficient plane but had to delay it after ...