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Mari Koseki
For Mari Koseki's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
JAPAN
Dec 17, 1997
Analysis: Tax-cut package elicits praise and doubt
Staff writer
JAPAN
Dec 12, 1997
Renewed Japanese leadership needed for Seoul's economy
Staff writer
JAPAN
Nov 24, 1997
Backpedaling through a crisis -- public funds near use
Global financial markets have seemingly nudged the government toward undertaking a move it would not have dared consider just one year ago -- suggesting that taxpayers' money be used to restore faith in the financial sector.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 1997
Foreign financial firms to find wider niche after 'Big Bang'
Tenth in a series on deregulation
JAPAN
Sep 8, 1997
Hongkong Bank poised to play
Sixth in an occasional series on the Big Bang financial reforms
JAPAN
Aug 29, 1997
Prudential prepared to tailor-make new products
Fifth in an occasional series on the Big Bang financial reforms
JAPAN
Aug 20, 1997
Reform bang may be too soft to shake up insurance sector
Staff writer
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.

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