The Financial Services Agency (FSA) plans to make the NISA (tax exemption system for small investments) permanent and expand the investment

Bill Gates, one of the world's richest persons on this globe, who is visiting Japan today, was handed the "Rising Sun Grand Cordon of Japan"

Sales of bicycles are booming in Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. This is because the city provides subsidies of up to 30,000 yen to citizens

Ten years have passed since the Rakuten Group adopted English as the "official language" within the company. While they have hired and train

The government is considering leaving the selling price of imported wheat to domestic milling companies unchanged from October onwards. Prim

The Furusato Nozei Research Institute (Osaka), which conducts surveys and analyses of the hometown tax donation market, analysed the amount

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) announced on the 15th. It has become clear how much domestic consumption and production have grown over the thr

What is Yama no Hi (Mountain Day) in Japan? Yama no Hi or Mountain Day is a national holiday in Japan celebrated on August 11 every year to

The Ministry of Finance announced on the 10th that the government's debt, which is the sum of government bonds, borrowings, and short-term g

The corporate goods price index for July (preliminary figure, 2020 average = 100) announced by the Bank of Japan on the 10th was 114.5, an i

According to a demographic survey based on the Resident Register as of January 1, announced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communic

The temperature in Tokyo reached 35℃ today, making it the 14th hot summer day of the year. This year has been the year with the most hot sum

The minimum wage is expected to rise significantly this fall. A council of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has proposed the larges

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