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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 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.
The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet stands at 63.3 percent, up from 61.8 percent last month, a Kyodo News survey showed Wednesday, despite the government’s recent decision to raise the politically sensitive sales tax. In the latest survey, 53.3 percent of ...
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 ...
Shinzo Abe's future as prime minister may well depend on how well the ¥5 trillion stimulus package cushions the economy from the tax-hike blow.
A stimulus package designed to buffer the economy from next year's consumption tax hike will be worth ¥6 trillion, officials say.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision on the tax hike this week is a major gamble, but his biggest challenge may be convincing companies to hike wages.
The Liberal Democratic Party has proposed around ¥300 billion in tax cuts to invigorate business investment, a pillar of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic growth plan, executives of the LDP’s tax panel said. The tax reduction plan, intended to soften the blow of the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggests he will re-examine the advisability of approving the second stage of the consumption tax hike to 10 percent in October 2015.
To cushion the impact of the first stage of the consumption tax hike, the government plans to distribute cash payments of ¥10,000 to ¥15,000 to people with low incomes, sources said Wednesday. Households exempt from the local inhabitant tax will receive ¥10,000 per person, ...
The public is nearly evenly divided over whether the sales tax should rise next April, but not over Prime Minister Abe's remarks about the Fukushima water crisis.
An upward revision to Japan's gross domestic product gives the government yet another favorable signal for raising the sales tax next April.