Posts Tagged ‘ Year ’

Japan Budget’s Dependence on Debt Sales to Rise to Record Next Fiscal Year

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The government will sell 44.2 trillion yen ($566 billion) of new bonds to fund 90.3 trillion yen of spending, raising the budget’s dependence on debt to an unprecedented 49 percent, a plan approved by the Cabinet in Tokyo today showed. (read more here…)

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Ecologists to Challenge Kyoto Refusal

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Environmentalists and business associations have both attacked the government’s decision to stay out of the second period of the Kyoto Protocol and promised to challenge the decision in the coming year. (more here…)

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San Jose to Tokyo flights to board soon

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After five years, nonstop flights from Mineta International to Narita will resume when a Japanese carrier launches new Dreamliner airplanes to San Jose and Seattle next year (read more here…)

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The nengajo rush

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Sending and receiving New Year cards in Japan is a matter of precision. (more here…)

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Japan Fukushima Plant Stable By Year’s End, Says PM

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TOKYO — Work to stabilize Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear power plant is on track and the government plans to declare it stable by the end of the year as planned, the prime minister said Friday. (more here…)

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Japan Municipalities Group Sells 50 Billion Yen of 10-, 20-Year Bonds

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Japan Finance Organization for Municipalities sold 50 billion yen worth of bonds, according to separate e-mailed statements from Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (get the story…)

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