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Japan Diet begins debate on dual surname bill for 1st time in 28 yrs

Japan's House of Representatives' judicial affairs committee begins its first deliberations in 28 years on legislation that would give married couples the option of using separate surnames in Tokyo on May 30, 2025.

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Japan Diet begins debate on dual surname bill for 1st time in 28 yrs

Japan's House of Representatives' judicial affairs committee begins its first deliberations in 28 years on legislation that would give married couples the option of using separate surnames in Tokyo on May 30, 2025.

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Aso willing to introduce taxpayer ID number system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) exchanges a few words with Renho, a lawmaker from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, after a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on Jan. 19. Aso showed willingness to consider introducing a taxpayer identification number system during the session on the first day of deliberations in the upper chamber on a government-proposed second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008.

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Aso willing to introduce taxpayer ID No. system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso replies to questions during a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on Jan. 19. Aso showed willingness to consider introducing a taxpayer identification number system on the first day of deliberations of the upper house budget committee on the government-proposed second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008.

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New BOJ board member eyes end to quantitative easy-money policy

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Mizuno, a newly installed member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, speaks at a press conference at the central bank on Dec. 3. The 45-year-old former chief strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japan) Ltd. said the central bank should step up deliberations with an eye to ending its quantitative credit-easing policy.

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Privatization not key issue at postal conversion body: Okuda

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), speaks at a news conference at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 15. Okuda denied privatization of postal services will be a focal issue in deliberations at a preparatory committee to set up a public corporation to take over the state-run services. The committee ''is not a meeting to discuss privatization,'' Okuda, chairman of the 14-member panel, said following its first session earlier in the day.

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New BOJ board member eyes end to quantitative easy-money policy

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Mizuno, a newly installed member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, speaks at a press conference at the central bank on Dec. 3. The 45-year-old former chief strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japan) Ltd. said the central bank should step up deliberations with an eye to ending its quantitative credit-easing policy. (Kyodo)

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Aso willing to introduce taxpayer ID No. system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso replies to questions during a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on Jan. 19. Aso showed willingness to consider introducing a taxpayer identification number system on the first day of deliberations of the upper house budget committee on the government-proposed second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008. (Kyodo)

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Aso willing to introduce taxpayer ID number system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) exchanges a few words with Renho, a lawmaker from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, after a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on Jan. 19. Aso showed willingness to consider introducing a taxpayer identification number system during the session on the first day of deliberations in the upper chamber on a government-proposed second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008. (Kyodo)

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Privatization not key issue at postal conversion body: Okuda

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), speaks at a news conference at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 15. Okuda denied privatization of postal services will be a focal issue in deliberations at a preparatory committee to set up a public corporation to take over the state-run services. The committee ''is not a meeting to discuss privatization,'' Okuda, chairman of the 14-member panel, said following its first session earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

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Tropical day in Tokyo

People under a parasol stand in front of the parliament building in Tokyo in the sweltering afternoon on May 26, 2015, protesting against Diet deliberations on Japan's security legislation, which started the same day. The mercury rose above 30 C around noon in the capital to mark a tropical day for the first time in the season. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house begins deliberations on TPP trade pact

Farm minister Yuji Yamamoto attends an upper house plenary session, which started deliberations on ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2016. While Yamamoto is under fire over his gaffes related to the matter, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims for Japan to be the first of the 12 Pacific Rim signatories to ratify the pact. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house begins deliberations on TPP trade pact

(From L on front row) Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend the upper house deliberations on ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2016. Abe aims for Japan to be the first of the 12 Pacific Rim signatories to ratify the pact. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house begins deliberations on TPP trade pact

Farm minister Yuji Yamamoto speaks at the upper house, which started deliberations on ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2016. While Yamamoto is under fire over his gaffes related to the matter, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims for Japan to be the first of the 12 Pacific Rim signatories to ratify the pact. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house begins deliberations on TPP trade pact

Japan's upper house begins deliberations on ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement on Nov. 11, 2016, in Tokyo, the day after TPP-related bills passed the lower house. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims for Japan to be the first of the 12 Pacific Rim signatories to ratify the pact. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo