Abe: Inflation Target Never “Real Objective” of Abenomics
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the second week of June 2019.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the second week of June 2019.
Female executives and government ministers in Japan probably always have a higher bar to cross to really be accepted in their positions. When she was Japan’s first foreign minister, the volatile and sharp-tongued Makiko Tanaka faced unprecedented open defiance from top bureaucrat Yoshiji Nogami. And if that seemed peculiar to the case of the changeable Tanaka, not many years later a quite similar thing happened to the first, and so far only, female defense minister, Yuriko Koike.