Japan Times
Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka and British biologist John Gurdon on Wednesday shared their delight at jointly winning this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on artificially derived multipurpose stem cells. At a press conference after...
Japan Times
As the government has downgraded its basic assessment of the economy for three months straight, Noda may promise in a speech to the legislature to front-load certain measures proposed under a strategy compiled in July to accelerate growth in sectors...
Japan Times
The policy package, which will be the first in a series of emergency measures, originally started out at ¥200 billion but was doubled to revive the flagging economy. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected to approve it Friday. The...
Asian Wall Street Journal
The Japanese government plans to approve an economic package worth more than ¥400 billion ($5.01 billion) Friday as it seeks to prop up a rapidly weakening economic recovery, a government official said Thursday. The first extra stimulus package in...