fredag 25 januari 2013

25-Jan-2013 14:43 Japan

Bank of Japan lifts inflation target :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ebmHwdMM6Bg/index.html

Japan runs record trade deficit :: Japan posts a record high trade deficit of 6.9tn yen ($78bn) for 2012, as exports to Europe and China continue their plunge.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21175351#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Opinion: Can 'Abe II' jumpstart Japan? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XCIPjKdaZzM/index.html

Longer Lives, Lower Incomes for Japanese Women :: When Hiroko Taguchi retired this past April, at the age of 64, from her job as an insurance sales agent, she joined the rapidly growing ranks of Japan's aging women who now outnumber their male counterparts.
Taguchi, a divorcee who lives alone, is heavily dependent on her pension to support what will likely be a lengthy retirement, given that women in Japan live, on average, about seven years longer than men. A survey conducted earlier this year by the Health and Welfare Ministry revealed that women account for 87.3 percent of Japan's record number of 50,000 centenarians.
"I am lucky I did not quit my job when I married, as was the norm for women of my age," Taguchi told IPS. Indeed, she is one of a very small number of women in Japan for whom old age is not synonymous with povert...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridh18919&cid=ct_15_46_f&fid1016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2F2012%2F12%2Flonger-lives-lower-incomes-for-japanese-women%2F

Japan Envoy Meets Chinese Communist Party Chief Over Island Dispute :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A special envoy from Japan met China's Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping, Friday and expressed the hope that the territorial tensions between the two countries over a group of islands in the East China Sea could be resolved.</p>
<p>Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the New Komeito Party, a junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, said Japan would take a broad view in dialogue with Beijing to resolve the dispute which escalated in recent months to the point that Beijing and Tokyo scrambled fighter planes Jan. 11 over airspace incursions near the contested islands.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/japan-envoy-meets-chinese-communist-party-chief-over-island-dispute-1038556

China and Japan attempt to ease tensions :: China's incoming president meets Japanese envoy in first high-profile discussion between the two countries since start of bitter territorial dispute
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8db2044-66a4-11e2-b967-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

Japan Has Many Problems, But Obesity Isn't One Of Them :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Japan suffers from many trends that trouble the remainder of the developed world, including a falling birth rate, a rapidly aging population, rising health care costs for the elderly and a stagnating economy.</p>
<p>But happily, Japan isn't burdened so much by one of the gravest health care crises sweeping across virtually all other wealthy nations: obesity.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/japan-has-many-problems-obesity-isnt-one-them-1038090

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