The main reason is that an election for the House of Councillors, Japan's upper house, is due in July.
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In addition, the yen weakened after Japan's lower house of parliament voted to approve all three government nominees for the top three jobs at the Bank of Japan, with final confirmation expected on Friday.
Mr Koizumi then led the Liberal Democrats to victory in an election to Japan's Upper House.
Changes in employment rules are seen as politically sensitive ahead of July elections for Japan's upper house of parliament.
Next, the President will welcome Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan to the White House for a bilateral meeting.
LDP, New Komeito faces an election for Japan's upper house in July.
As Japan heads towards upper-house elections in July, some expect the DPJ to make a more public spectacle of bureaucrat-bashing.
But both Japan and Germany, where house prices have fallen steadily over the past decade, show that low interest rates are no protection against a decline in house prices.
LDP-led coalition loses its majority in the upper house, as was expected at least until Mr Koizumi took over, such an outcome would make the business of governing Japan nearly impossible: the upper house, though not as influential as the lower house, has extensive powers of veto.
Japan has yet to put its economic house in order, despite repeated American warnings of the global repercussions of delay.
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One of the candidates was running as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (the current governing majority in the Diet lower house).
Two days later, after cursory debate, the lower house of parliament passed a new law allowing Japan's ailing life insurers to cut the rates of return they guaranteed to policyholders, and thus to break unprofitable contracts.
An engineer by training, the 51-year-old got his start in politics by managing the 1974 Upper House campaign of the late Fusae Ichikawa, Japan's leading feminist politician who championed equality of the sexes, shunned political parties and aided the fight against corruption.
Japan should develop and advance a regional framework for controlling green house gases that set specific targets for emissions reduction.
President Barack Obama talked with the prime ministers of Japan and South Korea Monday night, according to the White House.
As Japan heads toward the June 25 elections for the powerful lower house of the Diet or Parliament, Mori and his Lib-eral Democratic Party (LDP) are in trouble.
Their visit comes at a particularly delicate time, scarcely a month after the breakdown of the planned six-party talks (with U.S., China, Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea) that the White House insists is the proper venue for resolving the nuclear standoff.
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My childhood was spent in a small house next to the Katsuragawa railway bridge in Kyoto, Japan.
Japan's is the only major economy in the world where house prices will make people richer rather than poorer over the next five years.
Insiders expect the present chief cabinet secretary, Mikio Aoki, aged 65, an upper-house member from Mr Takeshita's district in western Japan, to take over the faction for the time being.
Thomas Schieffer, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, called the launches "a provocative act, " and the White House said Pyongyang had further alienated itself from the world community.
In Japan there has been a decline which has pretty much wiped out the rise in house prices that occurred between 1970 and 1990.
India's information-technology giants, stars of international outsourcing, bang their heads in Japan and South Korea, where conglomerates' ingrained habits of managing IT in-house persist.
Talk that Japan's prime minister may call a snap election for parliament's lower house at the same time as the upper-house poll in July will not die away.
Throughout his career, Ito's designs have been unusual, vivid and minimalistic -- from the aluminum house he designed for his sister to the Sendai Mediatheque in Miyagi, Japan, which he describes as his professional highlight.
Following the visit, the White House released a joint statement saying the two countries would continue negotiations over Japan's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed free-trade agreement between countries in North America, Asia and South America.
Japan's companies, even its best exporters, will not keep their in-house unemployed for ever.
The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), led by Ichiro Ozawa, controls the Diet's upper house and vows to oppose the LDP's measures, raising the odds of a poll in early November.
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