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WAGES

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 18, 2016
Ex-BOJ exec urges focusing stimulus efforts on wages not bonds
The Bank of Japan should stop its record bond purchases because the policy has failed to spur consumer prices and instead focus with the government on a wage target, according to a former central banker.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 16, 2016
Low pay haunts Tokyo's nurseries despite massive demand for places
After 6½ years as a nursery school teacher in Tokyo, Saki Sasamoto had had enough.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 16, 2016
IMF's radical wage plan for Japan turns Nixon policy on its head
In a sign of how worried it is about Japan's economy, the International Monetary Fund is urging the country to resurrect a radical strategy once employed by former U.S. presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter — only in reverse.
EDITORIALS
Aug 3, 2016
Raising the minimum wage
Raising the minimum legal wage is just one of several steps the government must take to improve the lives of the nation's 'working poor.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 21, 2016
Rule No. 1 for scoring big pay in Japan: Don't be Japanese
In Japan, expatriates rule when it comes to the biggest pay packages.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 18, 2016
Japan index compilers rush to please BOJ and excite normal investors
A man walks into a tailor, orders a custom-made suit and then says he's bound by his own rules to only buy half of it. Sell the rest to someone else, he says.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 16, 2016
Abenomics seen stalling with Toyota pushback against raise
To understand what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is up against in trying to spring Japan from the deflationary trap stunting its economy, consider the pushback by its most prominent industrialist Akio Toyoda at the wage negotiating table this month.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 15, 2016
Nomura to raise pay for 3,700 employees at Japan brokerage
Nomura Holdings Inc. will raise salaries for staff at its Japanese brokerage for a third year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 10, 2016
Japan's cash-rich firms buying back shares, but tight on wages
Japanese firms sitting on more than ¥340 trillion of cash are buying back their own shares at a record rate, while turning a deaf ear to calls from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to step up spending on wages and investment to support the economy.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Feb 26, 2016
Slim raises at Japan's spring wage talks no help to Abe, Kuroda
Shinzo Abe and Haruhiko Kuroda shouldn't look to spring wage talks for much help in spurring inflation and economic growth in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2016
Japan's auto unions seek slimmer pay raises as economy stagnates
Auto workers will ask for raises from carmakers led by Toyota Motor Corp. for a third straight year while scaling back from their demands in 2015.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2016
Abe's 'equal pay' appeal called into question
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caused a stir when he called in a Jan. 22 policy speech for equal pay for comparable jobs. Opposition lawmakers did not like what they heard.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 20, 2016
BOJ officials 'disappointed' with unambitious salary talks
Bank of Japan officials are increasingly expressing disappointment at subdued annual wage talks, according to people familiar with the discussions, making next week's monetary-policy decision a closer call.
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.
Russia launched intercontinental ballistic missile during attack on Ukraine, Kyiv says
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is launched during a test from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Northern Arkhangelsk region of Russia, in this still image captured from video released on Oct. 29.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
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.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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