Subsidies given by the state of Washington to Boeing are legal, the World Trade Organization appeals body said Monday, partially overturning a victory by rival Airbus and the European Union last year. The two aviation giants have been locked for years in a sprawling set ...
The transport ministry plans to give regional railways subsidies to offset the cost of replacing or refurbishing their aging train cars, ministry sources said. To establish a fund for the subsidy project, which will eventually total ¥1.05 billion, the ministry will make a budget request ...
A Liberal Democratic Party chapter led by economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi received a donation in 2015 from a company subsidized by the state, Kyodo News learned Thursday. Motegi, who assumed his post in a Cabinet reshuffle earlier this month, and architectural company Nikken Sekkei ...
Japan is expected to boost subsidies and other assistance to dairy farmers after reaching a broad accord on its economic partnership agreement with the European Union, informed sources say. The two sides struck the deal at bilateral ministerial talks in Brussels on Wednesday by resolving ...
It's like a dream to once again be able to live in my "home, sweet home." That's what Hidezo Sato, 72, says he feels every day since returning to his fallout-hit hometown of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. The government partially lifted its nuclear evacuation order on March ...
About a quarter of all approved clean-energy projects in Japan may no longer qualify for government incentives after failing to meet a deadline to secure grid access, according to preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. About 456,000 projects totaling 27.7 gigawatts ...
The Osaka Prefectural Government sends investigators to search the headquarters of nationalist school entity Moritomo Gakuen for evidence of fraud regarding subsidies for a new elementary school.
A North Korean organization on Monday rebuked a Japanese court's recent rejection of a lawsuit seeking nullification of a decision by local authorities not to pay subsidies to 10 Korean schools in Osaka Prefecture. The Korean Committee for Aiding Overseas Compatriots said in a statement ...
Total spending of state subsidies by 10 of Japan's political parties sank 19.8 percent to about ¥26 billion in 2015, the internal affairs ministry disclosed in a report Friday. The year-on-year drop occurred after spending on election-related expenses plunged 62.3 percent to around ¥3.3 billion. Each ...
The government on Monday designated the series of powerful earthquakes that have rocked Kyushu as a disaster of "extreme severity," paving the way for affected communities to receive increased subsidies for recovery efforts. The designation allows the central government to offer additional financial assistance to ...
Subsidies for in vitro fertilization and other forms of infertility treatment will now be ¥300,000 for couples trying the treatment for the first time.
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand's central province of Suphanburi. The soil is hardly moistened before the motor is switched off. Soldiers patrol the canal to stop unauthorized pumping ...
