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Japan Inflation Raise Rice Prices By 99% In June, Pressure Mounts On PM
Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 percent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday, piling further pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of elections this weekend.
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Sucked into Deflation Again: Japan's $2 Cup Noodle Binge is the Sign of the Times
Japanese consumers can't get enough of cup noodles, with spending on them surging by more than a quarter over the past year.
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Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Defends Security Legislation After Support Slides
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended controversial security bills that have sparked protests from voters worried they violate the country's pacifist constitution, after polls showed a drop in popular support for his government.
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Shinzo Abe, Seeking New Spark for Japan High-Tech, Meets Silicon Valley Chiefs
In the 1980s when Sony and Toshiba were setting the agenda in the global TV and memory chip markets Japan was bristling with confidence as a hub of technological innovation.
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Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unleashes New Stimulus to Spur Growth
Japan's Cabinet on Saturday approved about 3.5 trillion yen ($29 billion) in fresh stimulus, including subsidies and job creation, to help pull the world's third-largest economy out of recession.
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Japan's Weak Opposition Makes Shinzo Abe Default Choice
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is counting on a landslide victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday that will likely return his ruling coalition to power with an even bigger majority, empowering him to pursue an ambitious agenda of political and economic reforms.
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Scarecrows Outnumber People in Dying Japan Town
Even more than its fading status as an export superpower, Japan's dwindling population may be its biggest challenge.
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Japan PM Shinzo Abe Seeks to Validate Policies Through Early Polls
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he would call an early election to seek a fresh mandate for his economic policies, and postpone an unpopular sales tax rise, a day after data showed the economy had slipped back into recession.
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Japan PM to Reshuffle Cabinet in Bid to Re-Energise
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to reshuffle his cabinet on Wednesday in a bid to re-energise his economic and security agenda after once stellar approval ratings began to wane.
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Japan to Unveil Fresh Revival Plans for Economy: Reports
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected on Tuesday to unveil a fresh round of reforms to boost a nascent growth recovery, reports said, his second attempt at launching the "third arrow" of his economic action plan.
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Japan Tax Hike Lifts Inflation to 23-Year High
Japan's consumer prices rose 3.2 percent from a year earlier in April to the highest level since 1991, the government said on Friday, largely due to a sales tax increase.
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Japan's industrial heart escapes heaviest blows
As bad as the toll might eventually be in lives and property from Japan's earthquake and tsunami, the fact that the disaster hit far from Japan's industrial heartland will at least soften the economic blow, both at home and abroad.The epicentre was in and around the coastal city of Sendai, nearly 200 miles northeast of Tokyo, the nation's populatio...
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China set to beat US as No. 1 economy by 2030
After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world's second-largest economy behind the United States, according to government figures released early Monday.The milestone, though anticipated for some time, is the most striking evidence yet that China's ascendance is for real and that the rest of t...
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Japan Inflation Raise Rice Prices By 99% In June, Pressure Mounts On PM
Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 percent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday, piling further pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of elections this weekend.
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Sucked into Deflation Again: Japan's $2 Cup Noodle Binge is the Sign of the Times
Japanese consumers can't get enough of cup noodles, with spending on them surging by more than a quarter over the past year.
-
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Defends Security Legislation After Support Slides
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended controversial security bills that have sparked protests from voters worried they violate the country's pacifist constitution, after polls showed a drop in popular support for his government.
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Shinzo Abe, Seeking New Spark for Japan High-Tech, Meets Silicon Valley Chiefs
In the 1980s when Sony and Toshiba were setting the agenda in the global TV and memory chip markets Japan was bristling with confidence as a hub of technological innovation.
-
Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unleashes New Stimulus to Spur Growth
Japan's Cabinet on Saturday approved about 3.5 trillion yen ($29 billion) in fresh stimulus, including subsidies and job creation, to help pull the world's third-largest economy out of recession.
-
Japan's Weak Opposition Makes Shinzo Abe Default Choice
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is counting on a landslide victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday that will likely return his ruling coalition to power with an even bigger majority, empowering him to pursue an ambitious agenda of political and economic reforms.
-
Scarecrows Outnumber People in Dying Japan Town
Even more than its fading status as an export superpower, Japan's dwindling population may be its biggest challenge.
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Japan PM Shinzo Abe Seeks to Validate Policies Through Early Polls
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he would call an early election to seek a fresh mandate for his economic policies, and postpone an unpopular sales tax rise, a day after data showed the economy had slipped back into recession.
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Japan PM to Reshuffle Cabinet in Bid to Re-Energise
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to reshuffle his cabinet on Wednesday in a bid to re-energise his economic and security agenda after once stellar approval ratings began to wane.
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Japan to Unveil Fresh Revival Plans for Economy: Reports
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected on Tuesday to unveil a fresh round of reforms to boost a nascent growth recovery, reports said, his second attempt at launching the "third arrow" of his economic action plan.
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Japan Tax Hike Lifts Inflation to 23-Year High
Japan's consumer prices rose 3.2 percent from a year earlier in April to the highest level since 1991, the government said on Friday, largely due to a sales tax increase.
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Japan's industrial heart escapes heaviest blows
As bad as the toll might eventually be in lives and property from Japan's earthquake and tsunami, the fact that the disaster hit far from Japan's industrial heartland will at least soften the economic blow, both at home and abroad.The epicentre was in and around the coastal city of Sendai, nearly 200 miles northeast of Tokyo, the nation's populatio...
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China set to beat US as No. 1 economy by 2030
After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world's second-largest economy behind the United States, according to government figures released early Monday.The milestone, though anticipated for some time, is the most striking evidence yet that China's ascendance is for real and that the rest of t...
