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China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Three major stock indices skyrocketing, Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Three major stock indices skyrocketing, Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Three major stock indices skyrocketing, Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Three major stock indices skyrocketing, Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

YICHANG, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Yichang, Hubei Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

YICHANG, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Yichang, Hubei Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

YICHANG, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Yichang, Hubei Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

YICHANG, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Yichang, Hubei Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

YICHANG, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Yichang, Hubei Province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - A mobile phone shows the opening point of each major A-share index in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 28, 2023. On the same day, due to the positive impact of the halving of the stamp duty on securities transactions, the three major indexes of A-shares opened sharply higher, brokerage stocks led the rise, and the collective limit of individual stocks in the sector. The three major A-share indexes all opened up more than 5%.

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Nagoya assembly election

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura puts up panels bearing the names of candidates from his political group who won in the Nagoya municipal assembly election on March 13, 2011, in the central Japan city. The group called Genzei Nippon (Tax Cut Japan), which advocates permanent tax cuts and halving assembly members' salaries, won the most seats in the election.

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Fukuda wants big greenhouse gas emitters to join Japan's initiative

KYOTO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda addresses the opening session of an international science and technology conference in Kyoto on Oct. 7. The premier said that the cooperation of major greenhouse gas emitters and the advancement of science are essential to the realization of the goal of halving emissions of greenhouse gasses by 2050 from current levels, an initiative Japan is promoting.

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Japan vows more anti-global warming efforts in economic policy draft

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Hiroko Ota speaks at a press conference after a meeting of the government's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on June 12. A revised draft of the government's economic and fiscal policy guidelines discussed at the meeting showed that Japan will make further efforts to fight against global warming by reviewing its plan to achieve goals under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and aiming at halving global greenhouse gas emissions from the current levels by 2050.

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Abe unveils climate change initiative to halve emissions by 2050

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a speech to Asian political and business leaders at a banquet at a Tokyo hotel on May 24. Abe unveiled a Japanese initiative featuring the goal of halving global greenhouse gas emissions from the current levels by 2050 to fight climate change and the creation of a new post-Kyoto Protocol framework.

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Japan Post profit dives 51% on halving of savings division's gains

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post President Yoshifumi Nichikawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 23. He said that the company's net profit in fiscal 2006 plunged 51.0 percent from the year before to 947.7 billion yen as net profit from its postal savings section, its biggest division, more than halved to 941.6 billion yen.

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Japan to propose post-Kyoto steps to halve emissions by 2050

TOKYO, Japan - A heavy industry zone dotted with smoke stacks in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to propose global steps aimed at halving greenhouse gas emissions from the current levels by 2050 at the Group of Eight summit in June, and has already gained agreement from U.S. President George W. Bush to cooperate with Japan's efforts, Japan-U.S. diplomatic sources said May 8.

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7 top banks meet target of halving bad-loan ratio from 2002

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Tatsuya Ito speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 25. Ito said it is ''significant and welcome'' that Japanese banks' bad-loan problems have been resolved.

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(2)Ruling camp unveils tax reform outlines featuring tax hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Sakaguchi (L), chief of the new Komeito party's tax panel, and his Liberal Democratic Party counterpart Yuji Shimazu burst into laughter during a joint meeting of their panels in the Diet on Dec. 15. The ruling coalition later unveiled its tax reform outlines for fiscal 2005 featuring the halving of the 1999 fixed-rate income tax cuts at the national and local levels.

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Ruling camp unveils tax reform outlines featuring tax hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Yuji Shimazu, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Tax Research Council, addresses the panel's general meeting at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 15. Later the ruling coalition involving the new Komeito party unveiled its tax reform outlines for fiscal 2005 featuring the halving of the 1999 fixed-rate income tax cuts at the national and local levels, a move that would increase the taxpayer burden by as much as 145,000 yen a year.

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Daiei unveils restructuring plan

Chairman Isao Nakauchi (R) and President Tadasu Toba of Japan's top supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. speak at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25. They announced a three-year restructuring plan that called for a reduction of 3,000 jobs and halving the number of directors.

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Chongqing adds station for China-Laos international freight train service

STORY: Chongqing adds station for China-Laos international freight train service DATELINE: March 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:06 LOCATION: CHONGQING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the freight train 2. various of opening ceremony of China-Laos int'l freight train service 3. various of the freight train departing to Lao capital Vientiane STORYLINE: Carrying 37 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods worth over 4 million yuan (630,000 U.S. dollars), the first cargo train departed Xiaonanya station in Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, for Vientiane Wednesday. The train, carrying chemicals, building materials, mechanical parts, and daily necessities, is expected to arrive in Vientiane by way of Yunnan Province in about five days, halving the time it used to take from Chongqing to Vientiane by road. Chongqing launched the China-Laos international freight train service in Chongqing International Logistics Hub on Dec. 4, just one day after the China-Laos railway launch.

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CHINA-CHONGQING-JIANGJIN-FREIGHT TRAIN-VIENTIANE (CN)

(220302) -- CHONGQING, March 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A cargo train bound for Vientiane, Laos, waits to depart from Xiaonanya station in Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, March 2, 2022. Carrying 37 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods worth over 4 million yuan (630,000 U.S. dollars), the first cargo train departed Xiaonanya station in Chongqing for Vientiane Wednesday. The train, carrying chemicals, building materials, mechanical parts, and daily necessities, is expected to arrive in Vientiane by way of Yunnan Province in about five days, halving the time it used to take from Chongqing to Vientiane by road. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-JIANGJIN-FREIGHT TRAIN-VIENTIANE (CN)

(220302) -- CHONGQING, March 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo shows a cargo train bound for Vientiane, Laos, departing from Xiaonanya station in Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, March 2, 2022. Carrying 37 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods worth over 4 million yuan (630,000 U.S. dollars), the first cargo train departed Xiaonanya station in Chongqing for Vientiane Wednesday. The train, carrying chemicals, building materials, mechanical parts, and daily necessities, is expected to arrive in Vientiane by way of Yunnan Province in about five days, halving the time it used to take from Chongqing to Vientiane by road. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-JIANGJIN-FREIGHT TRAIN-VIENTIANE (CN)

(220302) -- CHONGQING, March 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A cargo train bound for Vientiane, Laos, waits to depart from Xiaonanya station in Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, March 2, 2022. Carrying 37 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods worth over 4 million yuan (630,000 U.S. dollars), the first cargo train departed Xiaonanya station in Chongqing for Vientiane Wednesday. The train, carrying chemicals, building materials, mechanical parts, and daily necessities, is expected to arrive in Vientiane by way of Yunnan Province in about five days, halving the time it used to take from Chongqing to Vientiane by road. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-JIANGJIN-FREIGHT TRAIN-VIENTIANE (CN)

(220302) -- CHONGQING, March 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A cargo train bound for Vientiane, Laos, departs from Xiaonanya station in Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, March 2, 2022. Carrying 37 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods worth over 4 million yuan (630,000 U.S. dollars), the first cargo train departed Xiaonanya station in Chongqing for Vientiane Wednesday. The train, carrying chemicals, building materials, mechanical parts, and daily necessities, is expected to arrive in Vientiane by way of Yunnan Province in about five days, halving the time it used to take from Chongqing to Vientiane by road. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-JIANGJIN-FREIGHT TRAIN-VIENTIANE (CN)

(220302) -- CHONGQING, March 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member patrols along the cargo train bound for Vientiane, Laos, in Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, March 2, 2022. Carrying 37 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods worth over 4 million yuan (630,000 U.S. dollars), the first cargo train departed Xiaonanya station in Chongqing for Vientiane Wednesday. The train, carrying chemicals, building materials, mechanical parts, and daily necessities, is expected to arrive in Vientiane by way of Yunnan Province in about five days, halving the time it used to take from Chongqing to Vientiane by road. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-JIANGJIN-FREIGHT TRAIN-VIENTIANE (CN)

(220302) -- CHONGQING, March 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A cargo train bound for Vientiane, Laos, is about to depart from Xiaonanya station in Jiangjin District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, March 2, 2022. Carrying 37 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods worth over 4 million yuan (630,000 U.S. dollars), the first cargo train departed Xiaonanya station in Chongqing for Vientiane Wednesday. The train, carrying chemicals, building materials, mechanical parts, and daily necessities, is expected to arrive in Vientiane by way of Yunnan Province in about five days, halving the time it used to take from Chongqing to Vientiane by road. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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Towa Electric Industry's 6-kilowatt charger for electric vehicles

Towa Electric Industry (Kita Ward, Okayama City), in cooperation with Wako Denken (Yao City, Osaka Prefecture), has commercialized a low-cost 6-kilowatt battery charger for electric vehicles (EVs). The total price (excluding consumption tax) is about 200,000 yen if installation work is also undertaken, which is about half the cost of installing a standard 6-kilowatt charger. The battery can be recharged in 12.5 hours with Nissan's LEAF e+ EV, halving the recharging time compared to a 3-kilowatt charger. Towa Electric Industry is engaged in the maintenance of power generation facilities, telecommunications work, and electrical work for stores in Okayama and Hiroshima prefectures. "In April 2018, the company launched its first product, a light-emitting diode (LED) lighting system for large facilities such as factories, with the aim of expanding its peripheral businesses related to electricity. (Photo taken on October 12, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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(2)Ruling camp unveils tax reform outlines featuring tax hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Sakaguchi (L), chief of the new Komeito party's tax panel, and his Liberal Democratic Party counterpart Yuji Shimazu burst into laughter during a joint meeting of their panels in the Diet on Dec. 15. The ruling coalition later unveiled its tax reform outlines for fiscal 2005 featuring the halving of the 1999 fixed-rate income tax cuts at the national and local levels. (Kyodo)

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7 top banks meet target of halving bad-loan ratio from 2002

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Tatsuya Ito speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 25. Ito said it is ''significant and welcome'' that Japanese banks' bad-loan problems have been resolved. (Kyodo)

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Japan to propose post-Kyoto steps to halve emissions by 2050

TOKYO, Japan - A heavy industry zone dotted with smoke stacks in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to propose global steps aimed at halving greenhouse gas emissions from the current levels by 2050 at the Group of Eight summit in June, and has already gained agreement from U.S. President George W. Bush to cooperate with Japan's efforts, Japan-U.S. diplomatic sources said May 8. (Kyodo)

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Japan Post profit dives 51% on halving of savings division's gai

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post President Yoshifumi Nichikawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 23. He said that the company's net profit in fiscal 2006 plunged 51.0 percent from the year before to 947.7 billion yen as net profit from its postal savings section, its biggest division, more than halved to 941.6 billion yen. (Kyodo)

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Abe unveils climate change initiative to halve emissions by 2050

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a speech to Asian political and business leaders at a banquet at a Tokyo hotel on May 24. Abe unveiled a Japanese initiative featuring the goal of halving global greenhouse gas emissions from the current levels by 2050 to fight climate change and the creation of a new post-Kyoto Protocol framework. (Kyodo)

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Japan vows more anti-global warming efforts in economic policy d

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Hiroko Ota speaks at a press conference after a meeting of the government's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on June 12. A revised draft of the government's economic and fiscal policy guidelines discussed at the meeting showed that Japan will make further efforts to fight against global warming by reviewing its plan to achieve goals under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and aiming at halving global greenhouse gas emissions from the current levels by 2050. (Kyodo)

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Fukuda wants big greenhouse gas emitters to join Japan's initiat

KYOTO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda addresses the opening session of an international science and technology conference in Kyoto on Oct. 7. The premier said that the cooperation of major greenhouse gas emitters and the advancement of science are essential to the realization of the goal of halving emissions of greenhouse gasses by 2050 from current levels, an initiative Japan is promoting. (Kyodo)

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Kamoshita delivers keynote at G-8 environment meeting

KOBE, Japan - Japan's Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita delivers a keynote speech on the second of a three-day meeting of Group of Eight ministerial meeting on the environment. Kamoshita voiced expectations that G-8 leaders will agree to a Japan-advocated long-term target of halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 during their July summit in Hokkaido. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Kamoshita delivers keynote at G-8 environment meeting

KOBE, Japan - Japan's Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita delivers a keynote speech on the second of a three-day meeting of Group of Eight ministerial meeting on the environment. Kamoshita voiced expectations that G-8 leaders will agree to a Japan-advocated long-term target of halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 during their July summit in Hokkaido. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Ruling camp unveils tax reform outlines featuring tax hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Yuji Shimazu, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Tax Research Council, addresses the panel's general meeting at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 15. Later the ruling coalition involving the new Komeito party unveiled its tax reform outlines for fiscal 2005 featuring the halving of the 1999 fixed-rate income tax cuts at the national and local levels, a move that would increase the taxpayer burden by as much as 145,000 yen a year. (Kyodo)

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Nagoya assembly election

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura puts up panels bearing the names of candidates from his political group who won in the Nagoya municipal assembly election on March 13, 2011, in the central Japan city. The group called Genzei Nippon (Tax Cut Japan), which advocates permanent tax cuts and halving assembly members' salaries, won the most seats in the election. (Kyodo)

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Golf: Matsuyama at Dell Match Play

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits a tee shot on the eighth hole during a Dell Technologies Match Play match against Chez Reavie of the United States at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas, on March 28, 2019. Matsuyama failed to advance to the knockout stages after halving the second of three group-stage matches at the World Golf Championships event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Golf: Matsuyama at Dell Match Play

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan is pictured during a Dell Technologies Match Play match against Chez Reavie of the United States at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas, on March 28, 2019. Matsuyama failed to advance to the knockout stages after halving the second of three group-stage matches at the World Golf Championships event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Golf: Matsuyama at Dell Match Play

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits a tee shot on the 17th hole during a Dell Technologies Match Play match against Chez Reavie of the United States at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas, on March 28, 2019. Matsuyama failed to advance to the knockout stages after halving the second of three group-stage matches at the World Golf Championships event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Golf: Matsuyama, Furyk halves in group match at WGC

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Jim Furyk of the United States are seen after halving in a group on the first of a three-day round-robin group at the world golf championship Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas, on March 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Daiei unveils restructuring plan

Chairman Isao Nakauchi (R) and President Tadasu Toba of Japan's top supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. speak at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25. They announced a three-year restructuring plan that called for a reduction of 3,000 jobs and halving the number of directors. ==Kyodo