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JAPAN
Dec 27, 2013
Yomiuri caught in ¥69 million tax dodge
The Tokyo head office of Japan's largest daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun, failed to declare about ¥69 million ($660,000) in income over three business years to March and has been told to pay back taxes, its parent said Friday.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2013
High-income earners face tax hike
The administration and ruling bloc are in the final stages of talks to raise the income tax in 2017 on corporate employees who make more than ¥10 million a year, sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 21, 2013
Thatcher-esque disparities a reality under Abe
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe evokes the late Margaret Thatcher as he repeats 'there is no alternative' to his platform of economic change. One of the byproducts: prospects for a Thatcher-type division of wealth.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2013
Household income gap set record level in '11
The income gap among households reached its widest level ever in 2011, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry reported.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2013
Bringing farmers markets to the urban poor
he Crossroads Farmers Market in Maryland is not your typical farmers market. It was founded to offer a friendly environment for low-income people to buy fresh produce.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2013
Cash handouts of ¥10,000 eyed for poor after tax hike
To cushion the impact of the first stage of the consumption tax hike, the government plans to distribute cash payments of ¥10,000 to ¥15,000 to people with low incomes, sources said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2013
Obsessing over inequality threatens capitalism
It's wrong to see income gains at the top as proof of U.S. capitalism's ingrained wickedness, or to forget that clumsy intervention might affect everybody else's income.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 2, 2013
Lawmakers' income rose first time in five years in 2012
The income of national lawmakers rose for the first time in five years in 2012 to an annual average of ¥20.06 million, up ¥30,000, according to government figures released Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2013
There's no putting Asia's Gini back in the bottle
Protests in the reputedly 'equal' nation of Sweden — attributed in part to young, unemployed immigrants — raise interesting questions about equality in Asia.
WORLD / Society
May 30, 2013
Nearly 40% of U.S. moms are family breadwinners
In a trend accelerated by the recent recession and an increase in births to single mothers, nearly 4 in 10 families with children under the age of 18 are now headed by women who are the sole or primary breadwinners for their families, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.
EDITORIALS
Mar 18, 2013
Time for base wage increases
For the first time since the 2008 failure of Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis, the wage situation for Japanese workers has brightened.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 18, 2013
'Lost generation' may learn a bit from restraint
This past decade, Americans under 35 have suffered the largest income decline of any age group. Will they view their challenges as useful someday?
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jan 29, 2013
Guarded optimism for debt-raising budget
Cabinet members are looking to the bright side, stressing that issuance of government bonds in fiscal 2013 won't exceed tax income for the first time in four years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 28, 2013
Welfare payments to be slashed ¥74 billion to root out the comfortably poor
Welfare benefits will be slashed by ¥74 billion starting this year because some people are making more on the dole than low-income workers are spending on living costs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 16, 2011
The rich are getting out while the getting is good
Japan's wealthy folks are taking their money, and their bodies, to safer havens.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2011
Japan in a European club?
Hitherto unknown and self-styled "loach" Yoshihiko Noda must learn to swim in an ocean of problems as Japan's new prime minister of the year. He has more than a plateful of domestic issues, but he should also realize, as his predecessors forgot, that Japan needs to re-engage the world if it is to find a way out of its depressing economic and political predicaments.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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