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Taro Aso says no link between Japan's October sales tax hike, speculation over snap election
Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday that the scheduled consumption tax hike and whether to dissolve the Lower House for a snap election should be considered separately. The tax "has nothing to do with" the question of whether to call an election, Aso, who is ...
Finance chief Taro Aso reiterates Japan's commitment to October tax hike amid speculation of delay
Finance Minister Taro Aso reiterated Monday the government's intention to raise the consumption tax from 8 percent to 10 percent in October as planned. Although exports are sluggish due to the Chinese economic slowdown, the employment situation and incomes are improving, Aso said at a ...
Japan calls on Asian Development Bank to reduce loans to China
Finance Minister Taro Aso called on the Asian Development Bank on Saturday to scale back easy money to countries like China that have developed to the point of no longer needing financial aid. "ADB should hold substantive discussions on a concrete path toward graduation while ...
China must “graduate from” the Asian Development Bank’s easy money if it continues to tempt emerging economies with unaffordable loans, the finance minister says at the ADB’s conference in Fiji.
In U.S. talks, Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso opposes linking currency with trade
Finance Minister Taro Aso has pushed back against U.S. efforts to bring yen policy into scope for bilateral talks aimed at striking a trade deal. "We can't agree to any talk of linking currency and trade policy," Taro Aso told reporters Thursday in Washington after ...
U.S. wants World Bank to give more support to poorest nations
The World Bank, a major source of development lending, needs to make more progress in shifting its loans away from fast-growing economies such as China and devoting more support to the world's poorest nations, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday. The Trump administration was encouraged ...
Japan announces new ¥10,000, ¥5,000 and ¥1,000 bank notes as Reiwa Era looms
The portraits on the new bills will be rendered as 3D holograms, which the Finance Ministry said is a world first for currency.
With opposition fractured, LDP bags over half of prefectural seats in first leg of polls
The results show that support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party remains firm ahead of the Upper House election set for this summer.
Despite divisions, LDP scores key win as Japan votes in nationwide polls
By winning the key Hokkaido gubernatorial election, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party gets off to a good start as it heads toward this summer’s Upper House election.
The deputy land minister boasted that he helped get funds for a highway project without Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and deputy Taro Aso having to tell him to.
Finance Minister Taro Aso ponders tariffs in spat with South Korea over wartime labor
Finance Minister Taro Aso said tariffs were among the measures Japan could take against South Korea if a dispute over wartime labor worsens between the major trading partners. In response to a lawmaker's questions in the Diet, Aso said that matters had not reached that ...
