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The Forgotten Japanese in North Korea: Beyond the Politics of Abduction

Tessa Morris-Suzuk: The Forgotten Japanese in North Korea: Beyond the Politics of AbductionSource: (10-26-09)[Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History at the Australian National University. She is the author of . Her most recent book, Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She wrote this article...

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Japanese Government Has Trouble Selling Debt To Its Own People

With Japanese government bond yields at a paltry 0.6%, far lower than even the 1.5% on offer back in 2007, Japanese retail buyers may have finally had enough. Bond sales to households have missed estimates by a wide margin. Investing In Japan: The MoF now only expects to raise Y1.3 trillion (US$14.3B) this year from individual investors, down from a prior estimate of Y2.4 trillion,...

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Fujifilm CEO Honoured by Japanese Emperor

Fujifilm CEO Honoured by Japanese EmperorZoltan Arva-Toth | | November 6, 2009 | | Fujifilm’s president and CEO, Shigetaka Komori, has been awarded the prestigious decoration, The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. Mr Komori is being recognised for his accomplishments in industry and in furthering culture through his leadership roles at Fujifilm, Japan’s Broadcasting Company – NHK,...

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Japanese Investors Saying 'No Thanks' to Government Bonds

The Mainichi Shimbun (original in Japanese ) reported early Thursday that Japanese Government Bonds’ (JGBs) popularity is rapidly falling among individual investors. Beginning in 2003, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has sold two types of JGBs (a fixed-rate 5-year and a variable-rate 10-year) four times a year to individual investors. However, as interest rates have been held...

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Japanese government PSA: A mask is the only way to cover your cough

The Japanese government has created this PSA to warn people about proper coughing etiquette: Apparently proper coughing etiquette only means wearing a mask to cover your mouth. Those without masks are given no proper advice on how to cover their coughs. Public service announcements in other countries usually don’t assume that everyone has masks, so people [...]

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Japanese Government to Honor Select Anime Artists

Among the over 4,000 individuals that will awarded various honors by the Japanese government this fall are four men with connections to the anime industry. The Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon will be awarded to composer Joe Hisaishi, best known for his scores for numerous Studio Ghibli anime films; Square Enix Holdings chairman Yasuhiro [...]

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Japanese FM cancels planned visit to U.S.

Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada's planned visit to the United States possibly later this week for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been canceled due to Japan's parliamentary schedule, the Japanese government's top spokesman said Wednesday. At a regular press conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano confirmed the cancellation, saying the...

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Japan's foreign minister will not visit U.S. : government

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's foreign minister has given up on a plan to visit Washington, the government's top spokesman said -- a trip that was meant to help smooth over a feud about U.S. military bases ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Tokyo next week.

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Japanese Debt - Don't Try This At Home, Kids!

Robert Samuelson has a typically good piece today , uttering his standard warnings about the mountains of debt we're piling up. Within that essay is this nugget about Japan's even larger debt. The same logic applies to exploding government debt. We have moved into uncharted territory and are prisoners of psychology. Consider Japan. In 2009, its budget deficit -- the gap between spending and...

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U.S. Forces in Japan Face Uncertainty

Members of Prime Minister Hatoyama's administration have sent mixed signals over the Japanese government's stance on a plan to realign U.S. forces on the southern island of Okinawa.

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Demo of 21,000 people demand closure of Futenma air base

GINOWAN, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) Around 21,000 people protested against the planned relocation of a U.S. military airfield within Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Japan, in a sign of growing local frustration over the new Japanese government's vague stance in reviewing the transfer plan. The protesters called for the immediate closure of the U.S....

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Reply to Obama’s Health Care: “The Hell With the Constitution”

wow wow wubbzy posted a reply: It is not the federal government that requires you to have auto insurance. It is the individual states that may require it. Not every state in the US requires auto insurance. You can be "self insured" . The speed limit is not controlled by the federal government. However the federal government strong armed the states and said if you don't...

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Japan to upgrade martial arts hall in Nanjing

The Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report blog notes that the Japanese government is providing funds to upgrade a maritial arts hall in Nanjing: Tokyo said Tuesday it intends to grant about $96,400 to upgrade facilities in the eastern city of Nanjing that train in the martial arts, including judo, wrestling and boxing. The money [...]

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Kusalava group chief feted

... to rework their economic priorities rather than focussing on improving exports. He referred to the Japanese government’s recent emphasis on improving quality of life and giving a bigger say to local consumers.

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Push to free trade deals

... greater market access for drug firms, but Japan has been pressing for a bilateral agreement on government purchases. India is unlikely to agree to a mutually preferential treatment in government procurement as a study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development shows that Japan will enjoy an advantage. According to the study, the government procurement market...