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Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday on advances in financial and resource-related issues after a surge on Wall Street overnight, but gains were trimmed toward late trading as investors stepped aside to await Chinese industrial output and other key data due the...
Tags: Japan Airlines Corp, Tokyo, tokyo stocks, ones wall, billion yen, wall street, account surplus, current account, trillion yen, Nikkei
Social welfare benefits surpassed 90 trillion yen for the first time to reach a record 91.43 trillion yen in fiscal 2007, a social research body affiliated with the welfare ministry said Thursday. The National Institute of Population and Social Security...
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Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday, with the key Nikkei index at its highest close in almost a month, as hi-tech shares advanced after upbeat U.S. quarterly earnings bolstered confidence. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average gained 100.33 points from Monday to 10,336.84,...
Tags: Hirohisa Fujii, Japan, tax revenues, trillion yen, finance minister, minister hirohisa, Nikkei Stock Average, Bloomberg, Tokyo, business daily
Budget hotels, once known as places with narrow baths and beds, are transforming themselves into those with outdoor bathtubs, high-grade furniture and other distinctive services. The transformation reflects attempts to attract people on business...
Tags: Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister, approval ratings, trillion yen, minister yukio, Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito, budget hotel, Japan
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s cabinet on Friday endorsed the suspension of steps worth 2.93 trillion yen allocated for the 14.7 trillion yen extra budget for fiscal 2009, crafted by the previous government, identifying the money as wasteful spending,...
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The amount of untapped money in the fiscal 2009 extra budget could be as much as 8.3 trillion yen, brightening prospects for the Democratic Party of Japan to fund its key policies smoothly, a senior DPJ lawmaker said Friday. The amount tops the DPJ’s...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, mental illness, trillion yen, death row, extra budget, Amnesty International, DPJ, dpj lawmaker, death penalty, human rights
Initial requests for the fiscal 2010 general account budget from ministries and agencies are expected to reach a record 92.13 trillion yen, up 3.58 trillion yen from the current year's figure...But with the Democratic Party of Japan winning power Sunday...
Flayed by depressed stock prices, deficits in the public pension program for company employees nearly doubled to 10.1795 trillion yen in fiscal 2008 from the previous fiscal year, the welfare ministry reported Tuesday. In addition, the national pension...
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Combining the two lenders, both backed by US investors and burned by high-risk investments in the global financial crisis, will create Japan's sixth-largest bank with assets of 18 trillion yen ($186 billion). The merged entity will apply for public money...
Tags: Shinsei Bank, Bank of Japan, Aozora Banks, U.S, largest banks, trillion yen, global financial, financial crisis
Nomura Holdings Inc. has reached an agreement to buy Citigroup Inc.'s Japanese trust banking unit for ¥19 billion ($197.3 million), the brokerage said in a press release Wednesday. Nomura Trust and Banking Co. aims to complete the all-cash acquisition...
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