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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.
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 ruling coalition was expected Monday evening to delay until the end of December the decision on whether to end the Tohoku reconstruction surcharge for companies a year earlier than planned, amid mounting criticism that it would not lead to wage hikes — one ...
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba said Sunday that a “convincing” effort must be made to find funds for disaster-hit Tohoku if it agrees to end the special corporate tax for reconstruction a year early. “The LDP is worried about whether it will be ...
The Liberal Democratic Party’s tax panel proposed Tuesday around ¥300 billion in tax cuts to invigorate business investment, viewed as a pillar of economic growth by the Abe administration. The tax reduction plan is expected to be included in an economic stimulus package to ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will postpone until next spring a decision on whether to alter the government’s interpretation of the Constitution to allow Japan to engage in collective self-defense, amid wariness in junior coalition partner New Komeito, a government source said Saturday. It is ...
Prosecutors search the Kagoshima home and office of Lower House Rep. Takeshi Tokuda on suspicion of illegal campaigning in December's general election.
The government might end a special corporate tax surcharge levied to finance reconstruction work in areas hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami a year earlier than planned, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday. The de facto cut of about 2 points ...
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, ...
A hospital group suspected of illegally deploying staff to support last year's election campaign for Rep. Takeshi Tokuda allegedly did the same in other elections.
Prosecutors on Tuesday raided the Tokyo head office of Tokushukai hospitals and medical facilities on suspicion its employees were illegally involved in December’s general election campaign of Liberal Democratic Party Lower House member Takeshi Tokuda. Tokuda, 42, a third-term House of Representatives lawmaker from ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe maintained the lineup of his Liberal Democratic Party executives Tuesday, though he is expected to reshuffle lower-ranking members of the Cabinet later this month, party lawmakers said. The party’s general council backed Abe’s decision to keep Shigeru Ishiba as secretary-general ...
A responsibility-shirking government is ultimately the people's problem — and responsibility — just as much as the nuclear disaster and all the nation's other problems are, argues Colin P.A. Jones.
The Liberal Democratic Party has not learned from its past policy reliance on pork-barrel projects, which caused the national debt to soar.