Japan unveils plans to cut government spending
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TOKYO : The Japanese government has outlined plans to cut its spending for the next fiscal year. This comes as it projects that the world&#39;s second largest
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A majority of Japanese want their government to get tougher with China and North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has dipped, an opinion poll showed.
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Japan's economy will likely expand 1.6 percent in the fiscal year starting in April, slower than the expected pace for the current fiscal year because of dwindling capital expenditures and housing investment, the government said Monday.
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Pfizer Inc  said on Monday it  expects to trim its expenses in Japan without shedding jobs by  12 percent this year, two years ahead of the U.S. company&#039;s  global target.
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The government announced Friday plans to conduct a sweeping overhaul of its defense policy, adjusting Japan&#39;s armed forces to better handle new threats such as terrorism and giving them a greater global role.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will reshuffle his Cabinet and pick key officials for the country&#39;s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday, said Shinzo Abe, secretary general of the party.
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s cabinet on Friday adopted an austere 798 billion-dollar budget for the year to March 2006 in which general or discretionary spending on policy programmes falls for the first time in three years, an official said.
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Newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday pledged to start debate on revising Japan's pacifist constitution, study a collective defense system with the United States and reverse the country's fiscal troubles.
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Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki on Monday proposed a draft budget for fiscal 2005 worth 82.18 trillion yen, up 0.1 percent from the initial 2004 budget, as higher debt-servicing costs outpaced cuts in discretionary spending.
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Japan passed a law Wednesday to fund the reorganization of U.S. forces in Japan
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Economic growth in Japan slows down as the country experiences a drop in domestic and corporate spending.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced his plan Tuesday to withdraw troops from Iraq at a ruling party meeting, an official said, moving to end Japan&#039;s largest military mission since World War II.
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In a shift away from its postwar pacifism, Japan&#39;s government overhauled its defense guidelines today, easing an arms exports ban and singling out North Korea and China as security threats.
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US President George W Bush says his forthcoming budget plans will seek to curb on domestic spending.
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Japanese firms cut capital spending by  4.9 percent in April-June from a year earlier, data showed on  Monday, confounding forecasts and adding to views that the Bank  of Japan will hold off from raising rates this month.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will  announce a new cabinet on Monday to try to shore up faltering  support a month after his ruling coalition suffered a massive  election defeat.
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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is set to reshuffle his cabinet on Monday in order to gain the leverage to silence critics within his ruling party of his unpopular reform plan.