Since the Democratic Party of Japan took office last year, it has been pressuring the Bank of Japan to be fiercer in fighting deflation.
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The first are Japan's office ladies the twentysomethings whose high disposable income has underpinned European firms' profits.
Officials from the European Commission raided the Frankfurt cargo office of Japan Airlines, Asia's largest airline, on Wednesday.
The mighty Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan had its head office in Otemachi on an urban site that overshadowed the Masakado shrine.
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"Japanese lawyers will call a bureaucrat and ask if something is allowed then give legal advice based on that, " notes Stephen Roith at Clifford Chance, another foreign law office in Japan.
In other Taiwan-related developments, China Daily says Beijing has appointed another top foreign affairs official, Zhang Zhijun, to head the government's Taiwan Affairs Office and replace Japan expert Wang Yi, who has been promoted to foreign minister.
Operating in the shadow of Japan's parliament from an office that bristles with models of high-tech weapons and U.S. mementos (like a cloth embroidered with a Camp David logo and a letter from Vice President Dick Cheney), Akiyama arranges bilateral symposiums on military issues, defense-related trips for Japanese pols to the U.S. and expos for American and domestic weaponsmakers in Japan.
Operating in the shadow of Japan's parliament from an office that bristles with models of high-tech weapons and U.S. mementos (like a cloth embroidered with a Camp David logo and a letter from Vice President Dick Cheney), Akiyama arranges bilateral symposia on military issues, defense-related trips for Japanese pols to the U.S. and expos for American and domestic weaponsmakers in Japan.
Notwithstanding this disclaimer, Ozawa's reputation as a meticulous and trusted interlocutor has given rise to some suspicions in Japan that the prime minister's office may have been exploring the possibility of such a deal, perhaps without the full concurrence -- or even knowledge -- of other, relevant govemment ministries.
All three were nominated by new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who came into office on the promise of bringing Japan's economy out of its prolonged slump.
Indeed, with a nice irony, apart from the post office, the best retail bank in Japan is Citigroup.
Beyond testing Japan's hardware, Russia may also be testing the resolve of Mr. Abe, long seen as one of Japan's more conservative politicians, who took office in December after his party won a landslide electoral victory.
Yet most of Japan's homeless have never set foot inside an office, let alone read the Nikkei newspaper.
And, in Japan, they keep their savings unproductively in the post office.
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Japan's justice minister has resigned weeks after taking office citing ill health, amid a scandal over alleged ties to an organised crime group.
Once in office, he seems to have calculated that Japan would chug happily along, leaving him to pursue pet nationalist themes such as inculcating patriotism in schools.
Mr Abe is a former prime minister who, when in office, called for a bigger global role for Japan and promoted efforts to boost national pride.
Hitachi president Hiroaki Nakanishi - en route from the World Economic Forum in Davos to Japan - stopped off to see Mr Jones at the Wales Office in London.
Among the five Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) candidates for party leadership, and the office of prime minister, Noda, having served for two years as minister or deputy minister of finance, was the only one to advocate a temporary tax increase to fund 3.11 disaster recovery and reconstruction.
Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister of Japan, reportedly cancelled an important speech and rushed back to his office.
Since November 1982, Japan has had 18 prime ministers, with an average stay in office of 658 days.
The first foreign leader the President met with in the Oval Office was from Asia the prime minister of Japan.
But in Japan many buyers of luxury goods have been ordinary middle-class office workers, some of whom save up for years.
Those trying to contact or locate U.S. citizens living or traveling in Japan can telephone the U.S. Department of State, Office of Overseas Citizens Services, at 1-888-407-4747 or (202) 647-5225.
All his most cherished plans reform of road-building, post-office privatisation, deregulation of services, a rethink of Japan's outdated security policy, attempts to tackle the huge budget deficit have been eviscerated by his own side.
Solar Frontier, a start-up company based in Tokyo, Japan selling leading-edge solar CIS technology, is opening an office in Khobar, Saudi Arabia to strengthen its position in the emerging solar-power market in the Middle East, which it has described as a strategic priority for long-term growth.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December, vowing to boost the economy by restoring Japan's export competitiveness, while at the same time stimulating demand at home through higher public works spending.
In remarks to the press after the Oval Office talks, Mr Obama said the alliance between the US and Japan was the "central foundation for our regional security and so much of what we do in the Pacific region".
British citizens in Japan who need assistance and those inquiring after friends and family can contact the Foreign Office in the UK at 44-207-008-0000.
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