Ruling bloc agrees to put off budget vote on “premium Friday”
February 21, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s ruling coalition agreed Tuesday to push back a proposed House of Representatives committee vote on the government’s fiscal 2017 budget bill from Friday to next week in view of the “Premium Friday” nationwide campaign starting this week. The accord
Toshiba to raise over ¥800b on chip biz sale
February 21, 2017
TOKYO- Toshiba Corp. plans to raise more than 800 billion yen by selling a majority of its flash memory chip operations, informed sources said Monday. The struggling Japanese industrial conglomerate is expected to restart the process to invite bids as early
Japan, China, South Korea summit unlikely before May
February 21, 2017
TOKYO- A trilateral summit among Japan, China and South Korea is unlikely to take place before May, due to Seoul’s political turmoil and soured relations among the three Asian countries. “We are making arrangements to hold (such a summit) at an
Bill to set annual “Minpaku” stay limit at 180 days
February 20, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government has drawn up a bill to set a stay limit of 180 days annually for “minpaku” private lodging services, according to informed sources. The government plans to submit the bill to the current ordinary session of the
FOCUS: Failed survey complicates N-fuel removal at Fukushima plant
February 20, 2017
TOKYO- A failed robot survey of melted nuclear fuel that has dropped through the bottom of a damaged reactor pressure chamber at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant complicates the formulation of a policy in the summer for taking out the
SDF conducts first overseas drill for protecting Japanese
February 20, 2017
RAYONG- Self-Defense Forces personnel conducted a drill in Thailand on Sunday for the protection of Japanese nationals aboard, a task made possible under Japan’s national security laws that came into force last year. The first such drill outside Japan, carried out
Ruling, opposition parties split over imperial abdication
February 20, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s ruling and opposition camps remained split over how to enable Imperial abdication, at hearings by the leaders of both chambers of the Diet, the country’s parliament, on Monday. While the ruling Liberal Democratic Party supported a special one-time law
January trade deficit widens, surplus with US dives
February 20, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s trade deficit in January widened to 1,086.9 billion yen from 647.7 billion yen a year earlier, while its surplus with the United States slumped, government data showed on Monday. The wider customs-cleared deficit was mainly attributed to a rise
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