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Investor activism is on the rise in post-Fukushima Japan. If it takes effect, the proof may show up at Nomura Holdings Inc.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda risks stalling the economy by pushing through a higher sales tax that may damp consumption even as it aids efforts to tame the world’s largest debt burden.
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Japanese policy makers shouldn’t try to weaken the yen as part of the effort to rebuild an economy shocked by the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, according to Jefferies & Co.
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Japanese companies may wait to invest in clean energy technology until the government determines renewable energy tariffs and a framework for deregulating the nation’s power industry, long monopolized by regional utilities.
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The Bank of Japan has lost as much as 22.4 billion yen ($281.7 million) purchasing exchange-traded funds as the Topix Index approaches a 27-year low.
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The Bank of Japan’s plan to spend a further 10 trillion yen ($127 billion) buying bonds may be insufficient to cure the nation of deflation that’s lasted more than a decade.
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan heads a party that has stumbled in the polls, jettisoned the previous leader and may lose its upper-house majority on July 11. His strategy to lure voters: suggest they pay higher taxes.
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Yukio Hatoyama overturned half a century of one-party politics when he led his Democratic Party of Japan to power nine months ago. Yesterday he showed he’s much like his predecessors by becoming the fourth premier in three years to resign.
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Tokiko Shimizu , the Bank of Japan’s first female branch chief, says the country’s tendency to shield women from responsibility is what’s holding many back. At 45, the youngest among 32 regional heads, she is bucking the trend.
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It’s the economy that cried wolf.
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