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Takuya Karube
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JAPAN
Nov 15, 2010
Japan's prosperity hinges on close Asia-Pacific ties: Kan
YOKOHAMA — Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Sunday that Japan's future prosperity hinges on whether it can build closer ties with China and other Asia-Pacific countries, although there may be some difficult issues.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 12, 2010
Kan bids to give Japan new image
If the Democratic Party of Japan hadn't swept to power last year, there may have been no further statements of regret from the country for its imperial past like the one directed at South Korea on Tuesday.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Jun 30, 2010
Kan's diplomatic debut in Canada a chance to show leadership skills
TORONTO — Naoto Kan may think he is curiously connected with Canada as part of Japan's top political echelon — but not because the sound of his surname conjures up the name of the country where he just made his diplomatic debut as prime minister.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2010
Kan survives G7 debut at Road to Nowhere
IQALUIT, Nunavut — Finance Minister Naoto Kan's first real exposure to the international arena was not in the dazzling lights of New York, London or Paris. It was in Iqaluit, a tiny town in the Canadian tundra, the name of which means "place of many fish" in Inuktitut.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2010
Canada G7 meeting will be Kan's financial debut
Finance Minister Naoto Kan will make his international debut this weekend when he attends a meeting of the Group of Seven developed nations in Canada's far north, at a time when the global economy is slowly emerging from a serious recession.
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2010
GDP likely to see first full-year rise since '07
The economy this year, if described like a weather forecast, will be cloudy the first six months but turn partly sunny in the latter half.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2009
Crisis gives Japan chance to change global financial order
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) Finance chiefs from the top developed powers met Friday in Washington and started down-to-earth talks on how to reverse the global economic crisis, testing Japan's ability to play a prominent role in forming a new financial order instead of just handing out money.
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2009
Just how 'poor' really is Japan's farm industry?
Last of two parts
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JAPAN
Apr 3, 2009
Young people see future in farming
First of two parts
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2008
Japan's bid to be key 'bridge' collapses with WTO talks
GENEVA (Kyodo) The key talks earlier this week at the World Trade Organization were a test for the future of the much-needed multilateral negotiations, the endurance of top negotiators and for Japan its international presence. But all these tests were failed.
BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2008
Japan hoping to mediate long-stalled WTO trade liberalization talks
Japan will try to act as a bridge between developed and developing countries when ministers from about 30 major trading powers converge on Geneva this weekend in the hope of achieving a breakthrough in the long-stalled Doha Round of trade liberalization talks.
BUSINESS / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 25, 2008
Oil price focus now shifts to G8
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia (Kyodo) With no immediate relief in sight from record-high crude oil prices, an urgent one-day meeting was held in Saudi Arabia before international attention shifts to the Group of Eight industrialized nations' summit in Hokkaido early next month.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 10, 2008
Oil shock spurs G8 energy chiefs' alarm, agreement to act
AOMORI — Group of Eight energy ministers have agreed on establishing a new international framework aimed at facilitating energy-saving measures to temper climate change and soaring fuel costs, at a time when crude oil is closing in on $140 a barrel.
BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2008
G8 wants to buck trend and raise energy technology R&D spending
AOMORI (Kyodo) Energy security, closely connected to global warming issues, has become a hot topic in recent years, but one important aspect of it is relatively unknown: The combined amount of public spending by developed countries on energy technology development has dropped to about half its peak in 1980.
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JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 9, 2008
G8 nations agree to create international energy-saving framework
AOMORI — Energy ministers from the Group of Eight nations on Sunday agreed on the establishment of a new international framework aimed at facilitating energy-saving measures to temper climate change and soaring fuel costs, at a time when crude oil is closing in on $140 a barrel.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 9, 2008
Larger R&D budgets a high priority for energy security
AOMORI — Energy security, closely connected to global warming issues, has become a hot topic in recent years, but one important aspect of it is relatively unknown: the combined amount of public spending by developed countries on energy technology development has dropped to about half its peak in 1980.
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JAPAN
Apr 28, 2008
TCI exec rips Japan for poor corporate governance
To go or not to go: that is the question. Presumably, this Shakespearean query has lately been on John Ho's mind, Asia director of The Children's Investment Fund, as well as other global investors seriously considering pouring more money into Japanese capital markets.
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2008
Foreign companies employing their own 'tankan' to take business pulse
The Bank of Japan's venerable "tankan" quarterly survey is one of the most closely watched ways of taking the temperature of the nation's companies.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2007
Canon, Nikon want 'friendly rivalry' to spur camera market
Canon Inc. and Nikon Corp. want to move their digital single-lens reflex camera businesses onto a path of higher sustained growth through friendly rivalry, despite their neck-and-neck race for No. 1 in the world ahead of next year's Beijing Olympics, the companies' presidents said in recent interviews.
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BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2007
Nobuyuki Idei hopes Japan can nurture Net giant
Nobuyuki Idei, former chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corp., said he is hoping a world-class Internet company will emerge from among the younger generation in Japan.
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.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
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.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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