The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum’s high-level meeting on growth strategy in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, wrapped up with a chairman’s statement on actions to be taken by 2015. That strategy is to be formally adopted at the APEC summit in November, with revisions due by the end of the year. APEC is not the only regional forum Japan participates in.
The search for a new CEO at Singapore sovereign-wealth fund Temasek will soon get under way, and the question of who might be hired, an insider or a foreigner, has become controversial.
Conspiracy or cock-up? That is the question that invariably comes to mind when something goes very badly wrong in business or politics. As it has done in both of these two worlds in Japan lately
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on Monday slammed national policy minister Yoshito Sengoku, without naming him, for mentioning the possibility of elections being held for both houses of the Diet at the same time. “Some Cabinet minister has referred to elections being held at the same time, but that’s out of the question,” Hirano said at a news conference. “Other Cabinet ministers should not discuss matters only the prime minister can decide on
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Friday that a funding scandal linked to him will be settled around next week, setting off speculation he was attempting to influence a board that is reviewing the case. “This question will finally be settled entirely around next week, so you need not worry after that,” Hatoyama told a group of supporters from his Hokkaido constituency at the Diet while apologizing for the scandal.
MOSCOW — In Russia, somewhere behind every event lurks the question: Who is to blame? In the tragedy that claimed the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other Polish leaders, we can answer that question with certainty in at least one respect: History is to blame.
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said he told U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday that the question of where to relocate the Futenma military base will be concluded by the end of May. Hatoyama, speaking to reporters after informal talks with Obama during a working dinner for the two-day Nuclear Security Summit, said he asked for acknowledgment of the need to ease the base-hosting burden on Okinawa residents.
WARSAW — Episodes like the current financial crisis seriously disrupt economic growth. But the question that we should be asking concerns such episodes’ impact on longer-term development. And that question has attracted surprisingly little interest.
By Cho Jin-seo Staff Reporter A president’s close associate? Or an opposition academic? Both are possible answers to the question of who will succeed outgoing Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Lee Se…
That was the question that the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry posed to some 260 financial firms recently, and 60.8 percent replied that Korea is still insufficiently competitive compared to de…