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Former US Senator Joe Lieberman Dies At 82

File photo - Former Presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R) and Senator Joe Lieberman attend the opening of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit hosted by US President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA on February 23, 2009. - Former US Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82. The cause was complications from a fall, according to a family statement obtained by CBS News, the BBC's US partner. The centrist represented the state of Connecticut in the Senate for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr Lieberman became the first Jewish politician to join a major party US presidential ticket in 2000 when Al Gore selected him as his running mate. Photo by Olivier Douliery/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Aso to decide on election on opposition response to extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on April 9. The premier reiterated he will decide whether to dissolve the lower house for a general election after examining how the opposition bloc responds to the fiscal 2009 extra budget.

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Aso to decide on election on opposition response to extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on April 9. The premier reiterated he will decide whether to dissolve the lower house for a general election after examining how the opposition bloc responds to the fiscal 2009 extra budget.

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Gov't eyes 15 tril. yen spending for FY 2009 extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Aso Taro answers questions from reporters on a fiscal 2009 supplementary budget at his office in Tokyo on April 8. The government is planning to compile a supplementary budget that will involve actual fiscal spending of 15 trillion yen, the largest-ever amount for an extra budget, to help Japan overcome the current economic crisis.

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Panasonic eyeing withdrawal from plasma TV operations

AMAGASAKI, Japan - File photo taken in December 2009 shows Panasonic Corp.'s plasma display panel plant in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, being unveiled to reporters. Panasonic is considering withdrawing from plasma television operations possibly in fiscal 2014 as part of efforts to focus more on profitable products, corporate sources said on March 18, 2013.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, announcing a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) attends a meeting of a government panel on reviving the Japanese economy, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package the same day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) shakes hands with Finance Minister Taro Aso (C) after a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, to announce a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs. To the right is economic revival minister Akira Amari.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, announcing a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Kubota president in interview

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuo Masumoto, president of agricultural machinery builder Kubota Corp., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at the company's headquarters in Osaka on Jan. 14, 2011. He said Kubota will seek to double group sales to 2 trillion yen in five years from some 930 billion yen in fiscal 2009.

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New national policy minister Gemba

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Gemba, new national policy minister, walks to the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010. Gemba is known as a fiscal conservative advocating the need to discuss raising the nation's consumption tax and review the Democratic Party of Japan's campaign pledges in the 2009 general election.

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New national policy minister Gemba

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Gemba, new national policy minister, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2010, the night before he was appointed as national policy chief. Gemba is known as a fiscal conservative advocating the need to discuss raising the nation's consumption tax and review the Democratic Party of Japan's campaign pledges in the 2009 general election.

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Sony returns to black

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyuki Oneda, chief financial officer of Sony Corp., speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on May 13, 2010. The electronics giant returned to the black in fiscal 2009 on an operating level after a year of loss.

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Sony returns to black

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyuki Oneda, chief financial officer of Sony Corp., is all smiles after reporting that the electronics giant returned to the black on a operating level in fiscal 2009 during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on May 13, 2010.

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Sony returns to black

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyuki Oneda (C), chief financial officer of Sony Corp., speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on May 13, 2010. The electronics giant returned to the black in fiscal 2009 on an operating level after a year of loss.

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Panasonic to return to black for 1st time in 3 yrs on TV sales

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for fiscal 2009 and earnings prospects for fiscal 2010 during a press conference in Osaka on May 7, 2010. Otsubo said he expects the company to return to the black in fiscal 2010 for the first time in three years due to an increase in television sales.

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Panasonic to return to black for 1st time in 3 yrs on TV sales

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for fiscal 2009 and earnings prospects for fiscal 2010 during a press conference in Osaka on May 7, 2010. Otsubo said he expects the company to return to the black in fiscal 2010 for the first time in three years due to an increase in television sales.

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FY 2010 budget clears Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) shakes hands with Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of Hatoyama's ruling Democratic Party of Japan, during a meeting at parliament in Tokyo on March 24, 2010. The Diet finally approved a fiscal 2010 budget the same day, a key task for Hatoyama since he assumed office in September 2009.

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Hatoyama asks banks to support small companies more

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (standing) addresses a meeting with leaders of Japanese banks at the Financial Services Agency in Tokyo on March 2, 2010. Hatoyama asked them to make ''more efforts'' to ease cash flows for small and medium-sized companies ahead of the March 31 conclusion of fiscal 2009.

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Mazda Motor raises earnings outlooks for FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp. President Takashi Yamanouchi briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for the April-December period and earnings forecast for fiscal 2009 during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2010.

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Sony revises FY 2009 earnings forecast upward

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyuki Oneda, chief financial officer of Sony Corp., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings forecast for fiscal 2009 and earnings report for the April-December period during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2010.

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Honda ups full-year forecast for 3rd time on domestic, Asia sales

TOKYO, Japan - Honda Motor Co. Executive Vice President Koichi Kondo briefs reporters on the company's business performance in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2010. He said the company raised its profit and sales outlook for the whole of fiscal 2009 ending in March for the third time, helped by cost-cutting efforts and brisk sales of fuel-efficient cars in Japan and other Asian markets.

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Nippon Steel expects 15 bil. yen net loss in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Steel Corp. President Shoji Muneoka speaks about the company's group earnings estimates for fiscal 2009 during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2010. The steelmaker revised the estimates downward, projecting a group net loss of 15 billion yen, the first loss in seven years.

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Upper House panel OKs FY 09 2nd extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Finance Minister Naoto Kan, Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei and consumer affairs minister Mizuho Fukushima bow after the House of Councillors Budget Committee passed the second extra budget for fiscal 2009 on Jan. 28, 2010.

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Hatoyama attends upper house budgetary debate

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama raises his hand to answer a question during the first-day session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on Jan. 26, 2010. Debate on a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009 started in the upper house after the lower house passed it the previous day.

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Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) walks past his right-hand man Ichiro Ozawa in the House of Representatives on Jan. 25, 2010. The lower house passed a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009 aimed at shoring up the weak economy.

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Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (C) walks past his right-hand man Ichiro Ozawa (R) in the House of Representatives on Jan. 25, 2010. The lower house passed a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009 aimed at shoring up the weak economy.

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Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and members of his Cabinet (top) bow in appreciation after the House of Representatives passes a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009 on Jan. 25, 2010.

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Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's ruling Democratic Party of Japan applaud during a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Jan. 25, 2010. The lower house passed a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009 aimed at shoring up the weak economy.

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Ozawa attends lower house plenary session

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, attends a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Jan. 25, 2010. The DPJ-dominated lower house passed a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009 the same day.

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Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Naoto Kan stand to bow in appreciation after the House of Representatives passes a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009 on Jan. 25, 2010.

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Gov't achieves most of its campaign pledges in budget: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009, after his Cabinet approved the largest-ever budget worth 92.30 trillion yen for the fiscal year from April 2010.

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Gov't achieves most of its campaign pledges in budget: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009, after his Cabinet approved the largest-ever budget worth 92.30 trillion yen for the fiscal year from April 2010.

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Gov't achieves most of its campaign pledges in budget: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009, after his Cabinet approved the largest-ever budget worth 92.30 trillion yen for the fiscal year from April 2010.

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Hatoyama speaks on fiscal 2010 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters outside of the prime minister's office on Dec. 25, 2009, about the fiscal 2010 budget.

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Nagoya to cut local income tax by 10%

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura salutes citizens in the city's assembly room on Dec. 22, 2009, after the assembly enacts an ordinance sponsored by the outspoken leader to cut local taxes by 10 percent in fiscal 2010. Nagoya and Handa, both in Aichi Prefecture, are the first cities to pass ordinances for cuts in local income tax in the next fiscal year starting April.

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Hatoyama, Fujii OK outline of tax reforms

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) shakes hands with Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii after being handed a report by a governmental tax panel at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2009. The Cabinet approved an outline of tax reforms the same day as part of the drafting process for the fiscal 2010 budget.

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Hatoyama, Kamei chat before Cabinet meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) and Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei chat before a Cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2009. The Cabinet approved an outline of tax reforms the same day as part of the drafting process for the fiscal 2010 budget.

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Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2009, about the drafting of the fiscal 2010 budget.

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Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2009, about the drafting of the fiscal 2010 budget. Hatoyama's government will try to compile the budget later in the month though some of its budgetary measures run contrary to election pledges.

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Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2009, about the drafting of the fiscal 2010 budget.

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Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2009, about the drafting of the fiscal 2010 budget.

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Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2009, about the drafting of the fiscal 2010 budget.

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Ozawa lets loose in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, Japan's top power broker, appears relaxed during a meeting with other lawmakers in parliament on Dec. 16, 2009. Ozawa, secretary general of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's ruling Democratic Party of Japan, played a key role in the party's work to draft a fiscal 2010 budget request the party submitted to the government the same day.

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Nobel laureate economist Paul Samuelson dies at 94

NEW YORK, United States - Paul Samuelson, a Nobel Prize-winning American economist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shown in a November 1994 file photo, died at his home in Massachusetts on Dec. 13, 2009. He was 94. Samuelson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970, influenced the fiscal policies of the United States and many other nations for decades.

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Hatoyama snubs press amid gov't financing woes

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama joins his hands, apparently in a gesture of apology, before wrapping up a press interview with some questions left unanswered at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2009. Hatoyama's government appears to be backing away from its goal of keeping new bond issuance below 44 trillion yen in fiscal 2010.

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Finance Minister Fujii talks of tax revenue

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii smiles during a meeting with other key Cabinet members at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2009. Fujii told reporters after the meeting that the Japanese government's debt in fiscal 2009 will top tax revenue for the first time since 1946.

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SDF officer speaks during budgetary discussion

TOKYO, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force officer speaks during a government-led budgetary waste-cutting session in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2009. The panel rejected a 7.2 billion yen request by the Defense Ministry for fiscal 2010 to increase the number of Self-Defense Forces personnel.

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Deputy PM Kan talks of budgetary waste-cutting work

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters after viewing the waste-cutting panel's session to discuss targeted projects in budget requests for fiscal 2010 in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. The panel recommended two anti-global warming programs be scrapped on the seventh day of its nine-day schedule.

Former US Senator Joe Lieberman Dies At 82

Aso to decide on election on opposition response to extra budget

Aso to decide on election on opposition response to extra budget

Gov't eyes 15 tril. yen spending for FY 2009 extra budget

Panasonic eyeing withdrawal from plasma TV operations

Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

Kubota president in interview

New national policy minister Gemba

New national policy minister Gemba

Top 6 banks post FY 2009 net profits totaling 1.13 tril. yen

Sony returns to black

Sony returns to black

Sony returns to black

Panasonic to return to black for 1st time in 3 yrs on TV sales

Panasonic to return to black for 1st time in 3 yrs on TV sales

FY 2010 budget clears Diet

Hatoyama asks banks to support small companies more

Mazda Motor raises earnings outlooks for FY 2009

Sony revises FY 2009 earnings forecast upward

Honda ups full-year forecast for 3rd time on domestic, Asia sales

Nippon Steel expects 15 bil. yen net loss in FY 2009

Upper House panel OKs FY 09 2nd extra budget

Hatoyama attends upper house budgetary debate

Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

Ozawa attends lower house plenary session

Japan lower house OKs FY 2009 extra budget

Gov't achieves most of its campaign pledges in budget: Hatoyama

Gov't achieves most of its campaign pledges in budget: Hatoyama

Gov't achieves most of its campaign pledges in budget: Hatoyama

Hatoyama speaks on fiscal 2010 budget

Nagoya to cut local income tax by 10%

Hatoyama, Fujii OK outline of tax reforms

Hatoyama, Kamei chat before Cabinet meeting

Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

Hatoyama speaks about budget policy

Ozawa lets loose in parliament

Nobel laureate economist Paul Samuelson dies at 94

Hatoyama snubs press amid gov't financing woes

Finance Minister Fujii talks of tax revenue

SDF officer speaks during budgetary discussion

Deputy PM Kan talks of budgetary waste-cutting work