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Japan will deny some tax breaks to big companies that do not hike wages while boosting deductions for those that do, as it moves to boost domestic salaries, a final draft of the ruling party’s annual tax reform plan showed on Wednesday. Large companies that raise wages by 4 per cent from the previous year will get deductions of up to 30 per cent of taxable income, up from the maximum of 20 per cent now, according to the plan for the next fiscal year’s tax reform obtained by Reuters.... Small fi

Sara Takanashi competes in the women's normal hill event of the national ski jumping championships at Miyanomori Schanze in Sapporo on Oct.... Ryoyu Kobayashi won the men's event with jumps of 92 and 97 meters, scoring 255.8 points.... Keiichi Sato and Junshiro Kobayashi rounded out the podium, while 49-year-old legend Noriaki Kasai was 22nd....

TOKYO: Japan’s exports marked a fifth straight month of double-digit growth in July, driven by US-bound shipments of cars in a positive sign for a trade-led economy, although a key gauge of capital spending fell for the first time in four months. The mixed batch of indicators underscored fragility in the world’s third-largest economy, which grew 1.3% in the April-June quarter due to solid exports and a surprise gain in private consumption. However, prolonged coronavirus curbs on bars, restaurant

TOKYO( Reuters)-A 69-year-old man survived 22 hours lost at sea off southern Japan, sat on the stern of his capsized boat and cloaked in a tarpaulin to protect him from the wind and spray.A video of his rescue, filmed by the Japan Coast Guard, showed one of his rescuers jump into the choppy, slate grey water and swim towards the boat, as the man sat hunched, virtually motionless, propped up against the rudder. The man, whom the coast guard said was Japanese, remained almost monosyllabic as his r

TOKYO: Bank of Japan( BoJ) board member Asahi Noguchi emphasised the need for the central bank to “ patiently continue ” its current monetary easing as it takes a long time to achieve its 2% inflation target amid the coronavirus pandemic.In a speech, Noguchi sounded cautiously optimistic on Japan’s economic outlook, saying its recovery would become clearer from the year-end onwards as vaccine rollouts help to ease the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Downside risks also warranted great attentio

Mount Fuji with its peak covered with a light dusting of snow is seen in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter above the Yamanashi Prefecture village of Narusawa on Sept.... Because they didn't fulfill the criteria for the season's first snowcap, the latest record announced Sept.... This year, the highest observed average temperature at the top of Mount Fuji was 9.2 degrees Celsius on Aug....

Harumi Triton Square, which houses the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is seen in Tokyo's Chuo Ward in this file photo.... The items were thrown away at nine Olympic venues including Shiokaze Park in Tokyo used for beach volleyball and Turigasaki Surfing Beach in Chiba Prefecture.... When checking if the items could be used at the Paralympic Games on Aug....