Archive for January, 2009
A South Korean woman entered Japan last April passing through Japan’s biometric immigration screening despite her previous deportation record, Justice Ministry officials said Thursday.
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The Japanese people will vote for a change of power in a general election this year, main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa said Thursday during an online live hookup via the Internet.
Leaders of Japan’s top three business lobbies on Thursday issued New Year messages stressing that an economic recovery and job security should be given top policy priorities in 2009 amid the deepening recession.
Japan PM looks to past for hope (Business Day)
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Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso insisted in a New Year message that Japan could survive the current harsh economic climate just as the nation rose from the ashes of World War II.
A woman uses a biometric scanner at an airport. A South Korean woman barred from entering Japan last year passed through its immigration screening system by using tape on her fingers to fool a fingerprint reading machine, reports said Thursday.
(RTTNews) - Japan Prime Minister Taro Aso says he will work to help Japan become the first nation to lift itself out of the worldwide recession. “Japan will be the first country in the world to get out of this recession,” Aso said in his New Year message.
A South Korean woman barred from entering Japan last year passed through its immigration screening system by using tape on her fingers to fool a fingerprint reading machine, reports said Thursday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan was expected to chalk up a record-high number of deaths in 2008, a government report showed on Thursday, underlining the unprecedented pace at which the ageing country’s population is shrinking.
Aso says Japan to be 1st out of recession (UPI)
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TOKYO, Jan. 1 (UPI) — Prime Minister Taro Aso, in a New Year’s message, said he will do all he can so Japan becomes the first country to emerge out of the global recession.
Japan’s Emperor Akihito made a rare comment on economic matters to call on the nation to unite in fighting its recession, in a New Year message released Thursday.