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A bill on a conditional moratorium on loan repayments by small businesses is likely to become law next week as a House of Councillors committee gave it a nod Friday, paving the way for its approval and enactment at the upper house’s plenary session Monday.
Tags: Japan, Tōkyō, Prime Ministers of Japan, Democratic Party of Japan, Politics, Moratorium, Business Finance, Yukio Hatoyama
THE Japanese Finance Minister, Hirohisa Fujii, has joined the debate about China's currency, saying that the yuan is probably too weak and should be allowed to appreciate. ''It can't be helped that people see the yuan as undervalued given the strength...
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Imagine yourself in a Japanese city in 2020. As you walk down the street, chances are that every other car you see is a hybrid or powered by electricity. Solar panels on rooftops are common, and homes are equipped with cogeneration water heaters.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama 's mother may have surreptitiously given him millions of yen for his political campaigns, sources say. Investigators are having difficulty untangling Hatoyama's contributions from his mother's, The Asahi Shimbun...
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November 26, 2009 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, it seems, can do no wrong. For weeks, he has been waffling over the issue of where to relocate the US Futenma air base, insisting he needs time to ponder the deal the previous Liberal Democratic...
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A group of Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers headed by Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa plans to visit China next month, the ruling party announced...Meetings between Ozawa and Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao, were still being arranged,...
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Troubled consumer lender Aiful Corp. has drawn up a revival plan calling for moving up repayments of outstanding loans from dozens of creditors on the basis of a new 15 billion yen credit line it will set up with its biggest creditor Sumitomo Trust &...
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In October, exports fell 23.2 per cent from a year earlier, compared with a 30.6 per cent decline in September, according to data released by the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday. The figure represented the smallest drop since October 2008, when exports...
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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama remained mum Tuesday on his ever-widening fundraising scandal, saying he trusts prosecutors to judge whether he is liable for any misconduct. Prosecutors are reportedly preparing to file charges against a former Hatoyama...
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In the work completed, the panel reviewed funding allocations for some 240 projects included in the fiscal 2010 budgetary requests, which top ¥95 trillion in total, and managed to cut expenditure by some ¥450 billion. It also called for funds set up by...
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