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KEIDANREN

EDITORIALS
Jan 29, 2014
Wage hikes can help end deflation
This year's wage negotiations have started, and for the first time in five years, Japan's largest labor organization will demand across-the-board raises in wage bases. The Japan Business Federation concurs but in more evasive language.
EDITORIALS
Jan 26, 2014
Leadership change at Keidanren
Keidanren has selected a new leader just as its clout declines and it faces challenges to its role as the nation's most powerful business lobby.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2014
Keidanren hands torch to unique chief after first pick declines
Unlike his predecessors as head of Keidanren, Toray Industries Inc. Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara doesn't belong to the business lobby's current leadership group of more than a dozen vice chairmen or chief of its Board of Councilors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 14, 2014
Sakakibara proclaimed next Keidanren chief
Keidanren announced Tuesday it will appoint Toray Industries Inc. Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara as the next chief of the nation's most influential business lobby to accelerate the country's economic revival led by the private sector as a leader from a manufacturing company.
BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2014
Business leaders call on firms to hike pay
In line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign to break the grip of deflation through aggressive economic policies, business leaders on Tuesday called on companies to hike wages.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 3, 2014
Only 17% of Japan's biggest firms plan to raise wages
Only 17 percent of major companies will raise wages in the business year that starts April 1, even though 71 percent expect the economy to expand in 2014, according to a Kyodo News survey.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2013
Major firms boost winter bonuses
The average winter bonus at major companies rose 3.47 percent from last year to ¥806,007 on the back of the economic recovery, Keidanren said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 17, 2013
Japan business lobby to accept basic pay hike in spring wage talks
Keidanren is likely to allow employers to raise basic pay at next year's spring annual labor-management wage talks, sources said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2013
Japanese businesses view Southeast Asia as key to growth
Japanese corporate leaders Saturday emphasized the importance of Southeast Asian markets for the growth of the country's companies during a meeting with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2013
Farm, business lobbies push tie-ups
The nation's largest farm and business lobbies have agreed to increase tie-ups to boost the competitiveness of the domestic agricultural industry as Japan and 11 other countries try to hammer out the Trans-Pacific Partnership before the end of the year.
EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2013
Real effect of wage increases
Despite signs that Japan Inc. may be ready to accept the prime minister's call to raise wages next spring, it's questionable whether the hikes would offest higher prices and taxes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2013
Keidanren to urge members to hike wages, Yonekura says
The head of Japan's most influential business lobby said Monday that he will urge member companies who are expecting business to improve to raise wages.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 17, 2013
U.S. demands more work before TPP talks
The U.S. has welcomed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's declaration that Japan intends to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, but noted that more work needs to be done to win Washington's approval.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2013
Biz group going to China to mend ties
The Japan-China Economic Association is making final arrangements to send a delegation to Beijing for a three-day visit from March 21 in a move that could contribute to mending fraught bilateral ties, association sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2013
Firms hesitant on Myanmar despite potential
A major Japanese business delegation of around 140 officials, including top executives of big firms, has returned from a six-day tour of Myanmar and Cambodia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2013
Abe asks business leaders to raise wages to help beat chronic deflation
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked business leaders Tuesday to raise wages in a rare move reflecting the administration's resolve to accelerate the battle against chronic deflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 11, 2013
Keidanren to tap execs from Toyota, Toshiba, Nippon Steel
The influential Keidanren business lobby will name Toyota Motor Corp. Vice Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada, 66, as one of its deputy chiefs, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 1, 2013
Give a little on wages
To help ensure a better future for Japan's economy, labor and management leaders should strive to agree on some improvement in workers' wages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 30, 2013
Keidanren to Rengo: No raises
Annual wage negotiations got under way Tuesday as leaders of the nation's most powerful business lobby and the biggest umbrella labor body met in Tokyo to discuss pay for the coming business year.
BUSINESS
Feb 26, 2003
Sony's Nobuyuki Idei and six others offered Keidanren roles
Seven business leaders, including Sony Corp. Chairman Nobuyuki Idei, 65, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Norio Wada, 62, have been asked to become vice chairmen of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), sources at the group said Tuesday.
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
The National Police Agency coined the term "tokuryū" to classify individuals involved in dark part time jobs and quasi-gangsters, using the words "tokumei" (anonymous) and "ryūdo" (fluid) to reflect their characteristics.
Thanks, tourists. Views of Mount Fuji are now blocked.
Tourists pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on Friday in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture. Local residents are upset over littering, overcrowding and the inconvenience caused by the visitors.
Is Modi’s party heading for a stunning election loss?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign tactics have escalated, including anti-Muslim rhetoric and fearmongering, reflecting his ruling party's desperation.
Two more arrested over brutal murder of couple in Tochigi
A vehicle carrying Seiha Sekine, the 32-year-old common-law husband of the deceased Tokyo couple's first daughter, leaves a police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Tuesday.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Xi bristles as Macron and von der Leyen urge China to do more on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen walk after their meeting in Paris on Monday.
How a Japanese scientist is turning the climate crisis into music
A screencap of a performance of Hiroto Nagai's “String Quartet No. 1 ‘Polar Energy Budget’” by the PRT Quartet
Japan’s tween skateboarders get head start on preparations for 2028 Olympics
Ibuki Matsumoto competes at an event in Osaka on April 21.

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