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GR Japan Managing Director, Jakob Edberg, has shared his analysis on the reshuffled Abe Cabinet and his new three arrows prior to IPF Brakfast Meeting with Naomi Tokashiki, State Minister of Health, Labour and Wealth on 14 October 15. Please check be...

GR Japan is pleased to invite you to a seminar, “Government Relations Strategies for Success in Global Rule-making”, which will be held on Friday, 2 October, at Roppongi Academy Hills. In this seminar, leading international speakers from the field...

According to Nikkei Shimbun on 9 September, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was re-elected unopposed as a president of LDP, is planning a cabinet reshuffle in October. However, the reshuffle is expected to be a minor one since Abe wishes to focus on t...

With the unprecedented triple crisis of a M9.0 earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a Level 7 nuclear accident, Japan’s government has been confronted by one of the greatest challenges faced by any nation in peacetime. As Vice-Director General of th...

  With gross national debt nearing 200% of the GDP and tax revenue (¥40.1 trillion) predicted to cover just 43% of national expenditures (¥93.1 trillion) in FY2011, Japan was in poor fiscal shape even before the disasters of 11 March.  After the e...

Japan’s GDP contracted by 0.9% in the first quarter following the triple disasters of 11 March. The government has launched a number of initiatives to support the affected areas, including that of establishing a “special economic zone” in Tohoku wher...