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Senior official retracts remarks over jobless people

Source: Kyodo News

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 6 hours ago | Business News

Parliamentary Secretary for Internal Affairs and Communications Tetsushi Sakamoto on Tuesday retracted his controversial remarks that questioned whether unemployed people who took shelter in a Tokyo park over the New Year period really possess the will to work. Referring to...

Business › Toyota to suspend production for 11 days in Japan

Source: Japan Today

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 2 hours ago | Business News

Toyota is suspending production at all 12 of its Japan plants for 11 days over February and March, a stoppage of unprecedented scale for the nation’s top automaker as it grapples with shrinking global demand. The last time Toyota Motor...

Hibiya Park tent city for jobless closes down

Source: Japan Times

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 10 hours ago | Political News

Some 500 jobless people, many of them laid-off temp workers, who spent the New Year's period encamped in Hibiya Park were relocated Monday to four other sites arranged by the welfare ministry after volunteers closed the temporary shelter in the...

Dollar dips against yen

Source: Inquirer.net

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 16 hours ago | Business News

The dollar slipped against the yen on Tuesday, paring sharp gains made the previous day on expectations that a planned US stimulus package would help revive the faltering economy. The US currency hit a nearly one-month high against the yen...

Picture of the Day › Firefighting drills

Source: Japan Today

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 13 hours ago | Entertainment News

Performers demonstrate acrobatic stunts on top of ladders, which is known as “Dezome-shiki,” as part of the Tokyo Fire Department’s New Year Fire Review held at Tokyo Big Sight on Tuesday morning. About 2,700 professional firefighters and members of community-based...

RTTNews: Danish krone falls to 3-week low against greenback

Source: Uinta County News

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 16 hours ago | Business News

In early New York trading on Monday, the Danish krone edged down against the US currency. The Danish krone reached a 3-week low of 5.4959 against the greenback by 8:00 am ET...On the downside, 5.624 is seen as the next...

Asian stocks rally on economic recovery hopes

Source: Channel NewsAsia

Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago | Business News

Asian stocks rose on Monday, with Tokyo hitting the highest level for almost two months as investors hoped that the US economy would start to recover this year after a dire 2008. Investors took their cue from Wall Street, where...

Japanese sailor missing from whaler

Source: United Press International

Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago | Technology News

A sailor from a Japanese whaling ship was missing after likely falling overboard in the Antarctic Ocean, a spokesman for the whaler's operators said. Efforts to find Hajime Shirasaki, a 30-year-old engine room operator who failed to report for his...

Japan Auto Sales Hit 34-Year Low

Source: Asian Wall Street Journal

Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago | Business News

Japan's domestic auto sales fell last year to their lowest level since the mid-1970s as recession squashed already weak consumer demand in the last few months of the year. According to data released by the Japan Automobile Dealers' Association Monday,...

Asian units rise on stocks rally

Source: Inquirer.net

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 23 hours ago | Business News

The won was the worst-performing in 2008 of the nine emerging currencies monitored daily by Reuters, falling 25 percent against the dollar. The rupee gained almost 1.0 percent to as high as 48.1 per dollar after a hefty interest rate...