Japan Cabinet reshuffle

Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Ikko Nakatsuka, Japan's new minister in charge of financial affairs, enters Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2012, as Noda reshuffled his Cabinet.

Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakatsuka, mayor of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, heads to the Osaka District Prosecutors' Office in Osaka on July 31 for questioning. Nakatsuka, 51, was later arrested by the prosecutors for his role in the bid rigging case in 2005 for a garbage incinerator plant construction project.

Japanese company eyes great potential in Hainan free trade port

STORY: Japanese company eyes great potential in Hainan free trade port DATELINE: July 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:37 LOCATION: HAIKOU, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in Hainan 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JUNICHIRO NAKATSUKA, Chairman President, Mitsubishi Corporation (China) Limited STORYLINE: As a major opening-up measure, China aims to build the whole of Hainan Island into a globally influential free trade port (FTP) by the middle of the century. As the second China International Consumer Products Expo is underway in Hainan, a Japanese businessman said that his company is willing to be involved in the building of the FTP in the Chinese island province. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JUNICHIRO NAKATSUKA, Chairman President, Mitsubishi Corporation (China) Limited "In 2021, the total number of tourists in Hainan exceeded 81 million, and the island has about 10 million residents. These have formed a huge consumer market of nearly 100 million people. Japanese companies can take advantage of the Hain

Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakatsuka, mayor of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, heads to the Osaka District Prosecutors' Office in Osaka on July 31 for questioning. Nakatsuka, 51, was later arrested by the prosecutors for his role in the bid rigging case in 2005 for a garbage incinerator plant construction project. (Kyodo)