Sakura Murakami
Reporter at Bloomberg News
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Sakura Murakami
(Bloomberg) -- Japan paused its sale of rice reserves after seeing a fast response from retailers, in a positive sign for the government’s efforts to temper soaring rice prices and ease consumers’ cost-of-living concerns ahead of an election this summer. Major players including Rakuten Group Inc.
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bloomberg.com | Erica Yokoyama |Sakura Murakami
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi. (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s government approved a plan to draw ¥388 billion ($2.7 billion) from reserve funds to support businesses and households impacted by US tariffs, in an emergency measure aimed at easing the domestic repercussions of President Donald Trump’s sweeping trade campaign.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Erica Yokoyama |Sakura Murakami
1 hour agoNPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS. "It is not always obvious when the government has acted with …
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Sakura Murakami
A bag of packaged rice. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Japan will sell additional stockpiles of rice at a fixed price with an aim to halve soaring costs, newly-appointed agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi said as the country heads toward a summer election. The government aims to release an additional 300,000 metric tons of its stockpiled rice with negotiated contracts at a set wholesale price of around ¥10,000 per 60 kilograms, according to the agriculture ministry.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Akemi Terukina |Sakura Murakami
Traffic travels along a road as pedestrians using umbrellas walk along sidewalks in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Japan’s coronavirus numbers have been ticking up, sparking alarm that it could be the next major country to see an explosive jump in infections. It’s also raising questions about whether Tokyo is about to go into a European-style lockdown -- speculation the government is trying to squash.
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