Japan must raise its sales tax again to conquer one of the world’s heaviest public debt burdens, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, as it called for deep economic reforms. The recommendations, outlined in the Washington-based fund’s annual country report, come four months ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that he plans to reshuffle his Cabinet and Liberal Democratic Party leadership in the first week of September. Speaking to reporters in the capital of Chile, the fourth leg of his five-nation tour of Latin America, Abe spoke ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sealed a series of deals Thursday in Chile covering areas ranging from mining to minimizing damage from earthquakes. Abe is on a five-country Latin American tour that comes just after China’s President Xi Jinping wrapped up his own visit to ...
Japan could be flirting with recession after the weakest factory output since 2011, which, following a surprising fall in exports last week, could pressure the central bank to ease policy and complicate a decision on whether to raise taxes. The severe contraction in output ...
Japan has agreed to strengthen its ties with the Pacific Alliance, a forum for economic cooperation comprised of Colombia and three other Latin American countries, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said after talks with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. The two leaders also agreed Tuesday ...
A group of female central government bureaucrats with children has called for an improvement in working conditions, including an end to notoriously long hours, to bring about a better work-life balance. The move comes at a time when the administration led by Prime Minister ...
Hiroko Yano, who’s worked 20 years at the same company, was recently told she could become a manager. The mother of three, who puts in an average of two hours of overtime a day, rejected the idea, saying she doesn’t want to be stuck ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to replace Shigeru Ishiba as the No. 2 man in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and has sounded him out about assuming a newly created Cabinet post for defense legislation.
If the barren state of Tokyo-Seoul ties continues, Shinzo Abe's call for the exercise of the right to collective self-defense as well as the protection of Japanese citizens on the Korean Peninsula in an emergency is doomed to become pie in the sky.
If it’s Monday, it must be Trinidad and Tobago. That’s what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could have said as he woke up Monday in Port of Spain, the Caribbean country’s capital. By Monday next week Abe will have visited 47 nations since taking office ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday pledged to launch new economic aid programs for the 14 member states of the Caribbean Community to continue support for the countries even after Japan’s official development assistance ends. At the first summit meeting between Japan and the ...
Often overlooked in discussions about Yasukuni is the divisive role played by the Yushukan, the war museum built within the shrine grounds to promote the "Yasukuni doctrine."
