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YURIKO KOIKE

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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 31, 2016
Buried truths: Digging deep into Japanese media from 2016
Everyone agrees 2016 was a terrible year, and not just because so many popular celebrities died. In addition to the wars, both hot and rhetorical, that continue unabated throughout the world, the political situation in Europe and America veered toward isolationism. Hatred ruled, and no resentments were...
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JAPAN / GEARING UP FOR THE GAMES
Dec 31, 2016
Final Olympics price tag almost certain to exceed current estimate
Even if the price tag for the Tokyo Games costs no more than the new target of u00a51.8 trillion, that is still more than twice the initial estimate.
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JAPAN
Dec 29, 2016
The top Japan news stories of 2016
The Japan Times newsroom selected these national news stories as the most important of 2016.
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JAPAN
Dec 22, 2016
Tokyo Olympics organizers settle on price tag for 2020 Games, eye further cost-cutting
Tokyo Olympic organizers on Wednesday slapped a first official price tag of ¥1.6 to ¥1.8 trillion on the 2020 Games.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 21, 2016
Quotes of 2016, from 'Die, Japan' to 'Trump shock'
Some of the good, bad and ugly of what various people said or shouted out loud in 2016.
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JAPAN
Dec 19, 2016
Citizens petition Tokyo to save trees amid Ueno Park face-lift
As a planned face-lift for Tokyo's Ueno Park goes forward in preparation for the 2020 Olympics, residents are asking that the government refrain from cutting down decades-old trees.
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JAPAN / Politics
Dec 16, 2016
Koike backs Ariake Arena as 2020 volleyball venue after ¥6.5 billion discount
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gets on board with the plan to build Ariake Arena to host Olympic volleyball in 2020, but not before scoring a significant discount.
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2016
Keeping Olympic costs down
Solid efforts have been made to cut the cost of hosting the Olympics, but even more should be done.
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JAPAN
Nov 29, 2016
Estimated cost for Tokyo 2020 Olympics jumps to ¥2 trillion
The figure is about 2.5 times the initial estimate in Tokyo's 2013 bid presentation to win the right to host the sporting extravaganza.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Nov 28, 2016
Let's discuss the proposed Tsukiji relocation
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike says she will decide in summer whether to relocate Tsukiji fish market to Toyosu, further delaying the long-troubled move.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 26, 2016
Hopes of stopping Tokyo 2020 are fading
NHK has announced that its yearlong historical drama series for 2019 will be about Japan's involvement in the Olympic movement, focusing on the nation's first foray to the games in 1912 and its first time hosting them in 1964. The story will also, according to Kyodo News, cover "events that took place...
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2016
Koike cuts pay of secret Tsukiji planners
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike issues pay cuts to the main players in the Tsukiji relocation debacle and seeks voluntarily compensation from former bureaucrats who were involved.
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JAPAN
Nov 18, 2016
Koike postpones decision on fate of Tsukiji relocation until summer
The governor says the relocation will take place sometime between winter 2017 and spring 2018, if it takes place at all.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 18, 2016
Hashimoto to turn down speaking offer at Koike's school for people with political aspirations
Former Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto indicated on his Twitter account Thursday he will not speak at the new school for aspiring politicians launched by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike.
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BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2016
Koike announces plan to re-crown Tokyo as Asia's financial hub
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Friday announced her plan to revitalize the nation's capital and reaffirm it as a top financial center, a move aimed at boosting the country's economic growth in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ¥600 trillion GDP target for 2020, the year of the Olympic Games.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 3, 2016
Hashimoto to be guest lecturer at Tokyo Gov. Koike's new political school
Nippon Ishin no Kai head and Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui confirmed that Toru Hashimoto, the former Osaka governor and mayor who helped found the Ishin movement, will be a speaker at the new political school founded last month by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike.

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