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.
Voices | VIEWS FROM THE STREET Sep 2, 2013
Tokyo: How would you describe Roppongi in one word?
by Mark Buckton
Hiroyuki Kadota, 32Nursery school teacher (Japanese)“Roadworks.” When I was a lot younger I went there, and I don’t have a great memory of that time because it was all roadworks, everywhere you look. And later, when a little older, when I went into bars ...