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JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Jan 22, 2011

Edano: Hike sales tax after the next election

The consumption tax should be raised after the next general election, which must be held before summer 2013, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano suggested Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2011

Banks look to invest in debt sales

Prime Minister Naoto Kan's plan to plug the budget gap with record debt sales this year will get some help from banks needing a place to park deposits that are outstripping loans by the widest margin on record.
JAPAN / PARTY LINE
Jun 25, 2010

Kan right to debate sales tax: Edano

Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Yukio Edano brushed off concerns that a sales tax hike could dampen consumer spending and defended DPJ President and Prime Minister Naoto Kan's decision to invite debate on the unpopular levy just weeks before election day.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2009

'Clean energy' plan may jump start NGK's sales

Japan's plan to use more renewable energy to fight climate change hinges on another technology — batteries as big as London buses to be hooked up to the power network at a cost of as much as ¥6 trillion.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 25, 2009

The Giants give you an excuse to go shopping

Big hurray for the Giants big pennant win! Bigger hurray for the department-store sales!
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2009

Opening a regulated market for kidney sales

PRINCETON, N.J. — The arrest in New York last month of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn businessman whom police allege tried to broker a deal to buy a kidney for $160,000, coincided with the passage of a law in Singapore that some say will open the way for organ trading there.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2009

Expect delay in Japan Post group share sales, opposition parties say

The government's sale of shares in the Japan Post group, which includes the world's biggest bank by deposits, will be delayed, according to officials in the Democratic Party of Japan, which polls indicate will win the Aug. 30 general election.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2009

Yokohama shops kick off '150' sales campaign

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yokohama port and stimulate local shopping areas, more than 100 shopping areas in Yokohama on Saturday kicked off a sales event linked to the number 150.
Reader Mail
May 28, 2009

Best after-sales service anywhere

Regarding the May 25 article "Traditional merchant values resurgent in recessionary Japan": In my 16 years living and working in Japan, I found the merchant values overwhelmingly positive — once you could communicate in Japanese — especially when shopping for big-ticket items. Anyone who has bought...
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2009

Tokyo Gas expects sales decline

Tokyo Gas Co. is forecasting a plunge in sales volume for the year ending next Tuesday, its first annual decline since 1977.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2009

Aso's kanji conundrums spur self-reflection, textbook sales

Reading Japanese isn't easy — even for Japanese.

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