When Japan pledged to provide up to $500 million in grants to help survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster within days of the catastrophe, it apparently hoped to kill two birds with one stone. By making what many view as a quick and generous ...
Faced with a declining number of young people and increased competition at home, some of Japan's top universities are opening up offices in bustling China to lure its young bright minds to Japan. The University of Tokyo, widely regarded as Japan's top academic institution, became ...
Japan, which has just revised its bilateral tax treaty with the United States, is now looking to sign pacts with other Asian economies that would cut taxes levied on international business activities. Tokyo hopes to renegotiate treaties with its Asian neighbors in a way that ...
BOCA RATON, Fla. (Kyodo) For Japan, the meeting here of Group of Seven finance chiefs concluded with only half of its goals met. While its concerns over the dollar's fall against the yen were partly addressed in the two-day talks, hopes that its G7 peers ...
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is facing a number of challenges as he struggles to put the fledgling economic recovery on a more solid footing in 2004. Of all the risks, three are major threats -- a slowdown in the U.S. economy, a sharp rise in ...
After graduating from one of the nation's most prestigious universities, Keiro Kitagami became a Finance Ministry bureaucrat, thereby joining the ranks of the elite in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki government hub. Ordinarily, he would have been expected to tread this bureaucratic path before seeking the blessing of ...
The war in Iraq may have been a mixed blessing for Japan's new central bank governor, Toshihiko Fukui. With finance leaders of the Group of Seven economic powers focused on Iraq's postwar future in their two-day meeting, Fukui failed to make a splash at his ...
PARIS — Japan's efforts to highlight concerns of a global deflation and the impact of a cheap Chinese currency on the global economy fell flat at the meeting of Group of Seven financial chiefs. In the face of the far bigger and more immediate concern ...
Japan had hoped to convince its Group of Seven partners that it is serious about cleaning up banks' bad loans. But things could not have gotten much worse after Friday's meeting in Washington. Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa's statement that Japan will do its best to ...
While Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has enjoyed sky-high popularity ratings during his eight months in office, his main opponent, the Democratic Party of Japan, has moved deeper and deeper into trouble. The largest opposition party finds itself in a quandary due to internal policy squabbles ...
