ILEA001120309: Tax-panel chief to resign over scandal, deals blow to Abe

Daihatsu to suspend domestic production over safety scandal

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 25, 2023, shows a Daihatsu Motor Co. factory in Oyamazaki in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan. The small-car unit of Toyota Motor Corp. said the same day it will suspend production at all domestic factories until at least the end of January due to a safety testing scandal.

Azabudai Hills in Tokyo

Photo taken on Nov. 24, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Japan's newly built tallest skyscraper Mori JP Tower (C) at a height of 330 meters at the Azabudai Hills complex in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

Tokyo Governor's extraordinary press conference on raising the alert level of the new corona to the "highest level

On April 15, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike requested the cooperation of Tokyo residents and businesses in accordance with the Act on Special Measures against the New Coronavirus, after an expert panel raised the status of the new coronavirus infection in Tokyo to the most serious of four evaluation levels. He said he would not issue a request for the closure of businesses at this time, but would request the government to establish penalties for businesses that do not respond to requests for closure under the special measures law. As for the government's "GoTo Travel" tourism promotion plan, which is scheduled to be launched on April 22, he said, "In light of the current infection situation, I hope (the government) will carefully reconsider the timing and method of implementation. Photo shows Governor Koike at a press conference on July 15, 2020 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Online conference to foster Japan's digital market

Photo taken at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2020, shows Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (R) and economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura attending an online conference sponsored by the central government to promote competition in Japan's digital business market. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan's monthly economic report

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) attends a meeting on the government's monthly economic report in Tokyo on May 24, 2019. Japan downgraded its assessment of the economy, citing a slowdown in China amid its trade conflict with the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Tokyo's Haneda airport

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Tokyo's Haneda airport.

Tokyo sky

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - A plane flies over Tokyo's Arakawa River after taking off from Haneda airport, in this file photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017.

Mystery theme park in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2017 shows the inside of Tokyo Mystery Circus, Japan's first mystery theme park, set to open in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 19.

Train wire problems affect 220,000 passengers in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Dec. 16 Kyodo - People are forced to get off a train stopped in Kawasaki after overhead wire problems on the JR Keihin Tohoku line in this photo taken Dec. 16, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter. The problem caused major train delays, affecting an estimated 220,000 passengers, mainly in the Tokyo-Yokohama area.

Maglev train

TSURU, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Photo shows a magnetically levitated train that set a world speed record of 603 kilometers per hour in a test run conducted by Central Japan Railway Co. on April 21, 2015. The test was conducted using new LO-series cars on the track between Uenohara and Fuefuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

Tax-panel chief to resign over scandal, deals blow to Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 21 shows a government-owned apartment for public servants in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. Government tax-panel chief Masaaki Homma offered to resign in the wake of a report that he was living in the apartment with a woman other than his wife.

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