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Over 60 percent of those significantly impacted by a powerful earthquake in central Japan on Jan 1 feel little progress has been made toward recovery and construction, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.
Politics - Japan Today
Japan's parliament on Tuesday enacted a 13.9 trillion yen supplementary budget for the current fiscal year through next March to finance a new economic package, including inflation relief steps and disaster reconstruction costs.
Philippines ratifies key defense pact with Japan - Japan Today
Dec 16, 2024 · The Philippines ratified on Monday a key defense pact with Japan, which allows them to deploy troops on each other's soil as they boost ties to bolster against China's growing pressure. Both countries are longtime allies of the United States, which has been strengthening an arc of alliances to deter…
Gov't approves ¥39 tril economic package - Japan Today
The final result will probably be much lower which will not do much for Japan's hordes of working poor in precarious zero hour contract jobs making 2 mil or so and subject to income, sales, city, pension, social insurance taxes on meager take home pay.
Inflation-hit voters in Japan hope for higher wages - Japan Today
Japan already has a quadrillion yen of outstanding public debt, worst in the world, and he wants “expansionary fiscal policy”. Spending even more money will slam the yen, and thus make inflation worse.
World - Japan Today
Today 05:25 am JST Today | 01:27 pm JST 12 Comments Kyiv on Saturday staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000 kilometers from the frontier, the latest in a series of escalating aerial attacks in the nearly three-year conflict.
Typhoon weakens but train, flight disruptions continue - Japan …
Disruption to train services and flights continued across a wide area of Japan on Friday due to a typhoon that has been weakening but moving slowly eastward from the southwestern main island of Kyushu. JR Central temporarily canceled all Tokaido Shinkansen trains from the first one on Friday due to…
Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek
Sep 2, 2024 · Japan, a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death, is trying to address a worrisome labor shortage by coaxing more people and companies to adopt four-day workweeks.
Russia expels UK diplomat accused of espionage - Japan Today
Russia said on Tuesday it was expelling a British diplomat who it accused of espionage and summoned London's ambassador to the foreign ministry in Moscow. The FSB security service said the diplomat appeared to have carried out "intelligence and subversive work, threatening the security of the Russian Federation", state news…