Monday Parliamentary chiefs of the Group of 20 major economies to meet in Tokyo. House of Councilors President Akiko Santo will chair the event, which will be held in Japan for the first time. South Korean National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang, who urged the ...
Monday Sports Day national holiday. Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki to leave for U.S. through Sunday. He will convey to U.S. government officials and lawmakers Okinawa's opposition to the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within the prefecture. Tuesday House of Councilors' budget committee to ...
Monday Cabinet Office to release preliminary indexes of business conditions for August. Leaders of political parties to have question-and-answer sessions in both houses of the Diet through Wednesday. Prosecutors to make closing arguments at trial of man charged with abuse leading to the death ...
Monday Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to release preliminary industrial production index for August. Seven & I Holdings Co. to end mobile pay service after hacking attack. Tuesday Consumption tax to be raised to 10 percent from 8 percent. The tax hike is intended ...
Monday Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to make a six-day trip to the United States and Belgium. Abe will attend the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York and then a forum on Asia-EU relations in Brussels. Autumnal Equinox Day, national holiday. Tuesday Abe to ...
Monday Emperor Naruhito to visit Niigata Prefecture. Tuesday Tokyo District Court to hand down ruling on Yuri Funato, mother of the 5-year-old girl who died last year after allegedly being mistreated at home. Prosecutors are seeking an 11-year prison term for the mother, who has ...
Monday Finance Ministry to release preliminary balance of payments statistics for July. Cabinet Office to release first revision of gross domestic product data for April-June quarter. Cabinet Office to release monthly "economy watchers" survey for August. Tuesday Japanese men's soccer team play their Group F ...
Monday Japan Automobile Dealers Association to release new vehicle sales figures for August. Finance Ministry to release statistics showing corporate financial results by industry for fiscal 2018, April-June quarter. Tuesday The Northern Committee meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission to be held ...
Monday Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to visit Beijing through Aug. 29 to mark 40th anniversary of sister-city relations. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to present plans for decommissioning part of reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture to host city. Tuesday Ministry of ...
Monday Finance Ministry to release customs-cleared trade statistics for July. Tokyo government to conduct test through Aug. 30 to ease traffic during 2020 Olympics by changing delivery time of items shipped from capital's port to metropolitan areas. Tuesday Foreign Minister Taro Kono to arrive in ...
Monday Mountain Day. Foreign Minister Taro Kono to pay round of visits to Eastern Europe through Aug. 18. National basketball team to face New Zealand in opening of International Basketball Games 2019 in Chiba. NBA player Rui Hachimura will play in Japan for first ...
Monday Close of extraordinary Diet session that followed House of Councillors election on July 21. Tuesday Memorial ceremony for victims of 1945 atomic bombing to be held in Hiroshima. Annual event comes days after major nuclear arms control pact between United States and Russia expired. ...
