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Takahiro Fukada
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2008
Japan, U.S. biz leaders optimistic
In an apparent effort to check the slide in business sentiment in the face of the global economic crisis, Japanese and U.S. business leaders sounded an optimistic note Tuesday at the end of a two-day meeting in Tokyo.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 3, 2008
Kaneko to review visa rules
Visa-issuing policies must be reviewed to attract more foreign tourists, according to newly appointed transport minister Kazuyoshi Kaneko.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 2, 2008
Nikai vows support for small firms
If the nation's small and medium-size companies start suffering from the financial crisis in the United States, the government must consider additional measures to help them, trade minister Toshihiro Nikai said in a recent interview.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2008
Tourism agency opens, targets 20 million by '20
Charged by the government with helping to draw 10 million foreign tourists by 2010, the Japan Tourism Agency was formally launched Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2008
New tourism agency to act as policy 'control tower'
The Japan Tourism Agency will be established Wednesday with the aim of attracting more foreign tourists to the country.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2008
Kaneko vows no controversy
Newly appointed transport minister Kazuyoshi Kaneko stressed Monday he isn't like his predecessor, Nariaki Nakayama, who was forced to resign following a series of gaffes.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2008
Gaffe-prone Nakayama quits Cabinet
Prime Minister Taro Aso's Cabinet suffered a serious blow Sunday with the resignation of transport minister Nariaki Nakayama, who was under fire for several gaffes, including saying Japan is "ethnically homogenous."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2008
Tourism minister apologizes for gaffes
New tourism minister Nariaki Nakayama wasted no time putting his foot in it. The day after stating that Japanese do not like foreigners and that the country is ethnically homogeneous, Nakayama apologized Friday and retracted his statements.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2008
Aso policies seen as short-term fix
Prime Minister Taro Aso's choices for finance and economic ministers failed to impress economists Wednesday, who said they are not likely to take bold measures to shore up an economy threatened by the global economic downturn.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 23, 2008
Anything, any time, anywhere
Unlike most other countries, Japan is dotted with thousands of vending machines that allow consumers to buy a wide range of products at any time of the day or night, eliminating the need for inconvenient trips to the store.
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2008
JAL, ANA to reimburse travelers for excessive surcharges
Information-inputting errors by Air Canada led Japan Airlines Corp., All Nippon Airways Co. and their agents to collect excessive fuel surcharges for connecting flights, the tourism ministry and the two Japanese airlines said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2008
Tokyo stocks plunge 5% to three-year low
The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nikkei average plunged 5 percent Tuesday to its lowest level in more than three years as the failure of the U.S. securities firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. spooked investors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2008
Virgin Galactic visits to book space tourists
Going around the world is passe. Nowadays the fashionable traveler aims a little higher — for outer space.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2008
Farmers demand ¥10 hike in milk price
Dairy farmers asked milk manufacturers Wednesday to pay them more for raw milk because the rising cost of livestock feed is threatening their livelihood.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2008
Mitsubishi gets Boeing on board in development of Japanese jet
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. said Thursday it has concluded an agreement with Boeing Co. to receive support from the U.S. aircraft manufacturer in the marketing, development and after-sales activities for Japan's first domestically developed jetliner, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet.
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2008
Aso in charge could foil fiscal discipline
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's sudden resignation will not cause a political vacuum, economic ministers claimed Tuesday, but analysts warned that Japan's fiscal discipline may be sacrificed if Taro Aso becomes the next prime minister and tries to spend the government's way out of economic trouble.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2008
Stimulus package ready for Diet OK
Hammered out in lengthy negotiations among ministries and the ruling parties, the government put forward an ¥11.7 trillion economic stimulus package Friday financed by a ¥1.8 trillion supplementary budget to be submitted to next month's extraordinary Diet session.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2008
Ministry setting example with own day-care center
The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry plans to open a day-care center on its premises in the Kasumigaseki district in the next fiscal year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2008
Steps eyed for temps' plight
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry may submit a bill to the Diet this fall that will urge, but not require, temp staffing agencies to pursue regular employment for the workers they dispatch in a bid to bring more stability to the lives of the underpaid.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2008
Additional budget for stimulus in the works
The government will draft a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year to secure financial resources for an economic stimulus package to be drafted by month's end, economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano said Friday.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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