Japan enlists private-sector firms in campaign to tame ballooning health care costs
Japan's public sector is turning to the private sector to help slow the rapid growth in the nation's health care spending. Faced with a rapidly graying population that's projected to push up heath care spending by more than 50 percent in the decade through 2025, ...
Panel says Fukushima power plant's cleanup fees are now almost double the 2013 estimate
Estimates of the combined cost of dealing with the ongoing situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have reached ¥21.5 trillion.
The cost of the Fukushima disaster will likely surpass ¥20 trillion, and the government wants to raise electricity rates to pay for it, sources say.
The Olympics organizing committee is aiming to settle its overall budget for the 2020 Summer Games at around ¥2 trillion.
Government aims to privatize National Stadium after 2020 Olympics to trim costs
The central government plans to privatize the National Stadium to be built for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after the sports event ends, hoping to reduce the running costs it would have to pay, government sources said Tuesday. The idea was included in the outline of ...
apan's dairies and cake lovers just can't seem to catch a break. A weakening yen is making it more expensive for farmers to import the U.S. corn their cows eat at a time when record crops have reduced livestock-feeding costs around the world. And while ...
Costs keep mounting for idled reactors
Since March 2011, the government has focused on the cost of cleaning up after Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Now, the bill is coming due for another unbudgeted consequence of that calamity — shutting down the nation's 48 remaining nuclear reactors for ...
