Tag - spending

 
 

SPENDING

BUSINESS / Economy
May 17, 2013
Machinery orders jump 14.2%, sharpest since '05
Core private-sector machinery orders jumped a seasonally adjusted 14.2 percent in March, indicating the weaker yen and higher stocks are starting to prompt companies to boost investment, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 21, 2013
Proposed inheritance tax exemption isn't really about inheritance taxes
Will old folks encouraged to think of their grandkids' education loosen their grip on unproductive savings?
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 19, 2012
New stats about old folks
Some new numbers about elderly household income and spending.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2011
Japan at critical tipping point
Japanese trains run to the minute, and the country's businesses pride themselves on energy-efficiency. The Japanese boast of their eco-services for eco-products in eco-cities. Yet they rely primarily on imported fossil fuel and nuclear power, live in energy-wasteful homes, and import 60 percent of their...

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.