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	Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
		The delegation of Japan is composed today of representatives of several ministries and agencies, led by me, Director General of the Gender Equality Bureau of the Cabinet Office.
		Japan, the largest donor of ODA over the last decade of the 20th century, has been active in supporting women in the developing world both bilaterally and through the United Nations and other international organizations.
		Japan’s ODA Charter, approved by the Cabinet in 1992 to indicate the Government’s basic policies with regard to the implementation of ODA, is now undergoing a review.
	www.un.int /japan/statements/bando030708.html (3218 words)

	Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
		Therefore Japan considers that the themes of the forty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which focus on the role of men and boys in gender equality and women's role in peace-building, are very timely and appropriate.
		Japan is determined to continue its efforts in the area of education for empowerment of women in/after conflicts for example, in cooperation with the United Nations, international organizations, other countries, and NGOs.
		Japan is actively involved in providing assistance to Afghan women by conducting projects such as dispatching gender experts to the Ministry of Women Affairs and receiving trainees from them, reconstructing girls' schools, establishing women's community centers through NGOs, and assisting refugees and displaced women through the Human Security Fund.
	www.un.int /japan/statements/meguro040303.html (1528 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: Japan: Profile
		Japan's 1947 constitution, which renounces the right to use force or the threat of force as a means of settling international disputes, sets important limits on Japanese security policy.
		Japan's two-stage H-2 rocket is capable of placing a two-ton payload into orbit, but the H-2 is not optimal for ballistic missile applications due to its reliance on cryogenic liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel.
		Japan is an active member of the MTCR and was involved in drafting the International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (ICOC).
	nti.org /e_research/profiles/Japan/index.html (1319 words)

	Japan Defense Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		) is an agency of the Cabinet Office in the Cabinet of Japan.
		As a result of a law enacted on December 15, 2006, it is scheduled to become a ministry on January 9, 2007.
		The Defense Agency, as part of the Office of the Prime Minister, is required by Article 66 of the constitution to be completely subordinate to civilian authority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_Defense_Agency (1080 words)

	Japan finds the sun also rises - www.theage.com.au
		Japan is enjoying its best run of economic news for six years, with figures released yesterday showing the world's second-largest economy is growing at an annualised rate of 2.2 per cent.
		Japan's cabinet office said the Japanese economy grew 0.6 per cent in the September quarter - stronger than the prediction of analysts, who had tipped a growth rate of between 0.3 and 0.4 per cent.
		Japan's cabinet office said that exports had risen 2.8 per cent in the September quarter, with sharp increases in exports by companies making electronic and telecommunication products.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/11/14/1068674382299.html (568 words)

	Japan Nikkei 225
		Japan's trade surplus fell 31.8 percent in April from a year earlier to 646.2 billion yen as a surge in the cost of imports prompted by high oil prices offset a steady rise in exports, government data showed on Thursday.
		Japan's latest economic growth figures show that prices, as measured by the GDP deflator, were still declining in the October-December quarter, prompting fresh calls for the Bank of Japan to weigh carefully any decision to end its ultraeasy policy.
		Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui said on Thursday the BOJ would need to make sure deflation was well and truly beaten before scrapping its ultra-easy monetary policy, and he appeared to leave the door open to leaving rates at zero even once the policy was abandoned.
	www.investmenttools.com /equities/world/japan_nikkei_225.htm (4894 words)

	Japan Changing perceptions on defence
		Japan may be the only nation in the world where an administrative organ responsible for the protection of citizens’ lives and assets has been given lower status than other central government organs.
		In early January, the government, which presently consists of the Prime Minister’s office, 22 ministries and agencies, will be transformed into a cabinet office and 12 ministries and agencies.
		Japan’s changing defence perceptions and plans to acquire ships and aircraft that would permit its SDF greatly extended area of operations far away from its coast, are being closely watched by all its neighbours.
	www.defencejournal.com /2001/feb/japan.htm (887 words)

	RTE Business - Japan downgrades economic assessment
		Japan's government has downgraded its key economic assessment for the third straight month due to slack factory production and consumer spending, although exports were seen offering a glimmer of hope.
		The Cabinet Office also highlighted concerns over consumer spending - which comprises over half of gross domestic product - as wages continue to fall and companies are forced to cut more jobs.
		In the short-term Japan's economy would continue to follow a gradual recovery track, provided the US and other major economies continue to pick up, the assessment said.
	www.rte.ie /business/2003/0117/japan.html (294 words)

	CNN.com - Japan economy "has deteriorated" - July 11, 2001
		Japan's economy "has deteriorated," with personal spending and corporate investment both weak, the government said.
		Japan's current-account surplus plummeted 46 percent in May, to $3.54 billion (444.0 billion yen), The Ministry of Finance reported.
		Cabinet ministers have backtracked on official denials and now admit they are considering one.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/asia/07/10/japan.assessment (565 words)

	Women in Action: Gender Equality Movements in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lowest among the developed countries, Japan was ranked 41st by the United Nations Development Programme in terms of the Gender Empowerment Measure in the year 2000.
		Japan is one of the very few countries where the labour activity rate of women drops sharply in their late 30s to early 40s.
		It is estimated that Japan will face a serious labour shortage in the 21st century due to the long decline in the country’s fertility rate, which has been decreasing in the last 50 years.
	www.isiswomen.org /pub/wia/wia101/japan.html (2064 words)

	H-2A Failure Deals Blow On Several Fronts To Japanese Space Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Junichi Moriuma, a spokesman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), acknowledged that data from sensors at the base of the SRB-A indicated a temperature rise, and that a nozzle malfunction is now being considered as a possible cause of the failure.
		Masakazu Iguchi, chairman of Japan’s Space Activities Commission, said Dec. 5 that it is "doubtful" that JAXA could stick to its launch schedule for 2004 but added that it is too early to predict the length of any delays.
		Iguchi said Japan’s Cabinet Office, which runs the spy satellite program, has asked JAXA and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to wrap up its accident investigation within three months.
	www.space.com /spacenews/archive03/japanarch_122303.html (1016 words)

	RTE Business - Weak exports put Japan in slump
		The Japanese economy was in recession for most of 2004 as official figures this morning showed three successive quarters of negative growth, as slower exports and consumption hit output.
		Japan's Cabinet Office said the economy shrank 0.1% in the three months to December compared with the previous quarter, giving an annual drop of 0.5%.
		Japan growth grinds to halt in Q3 News
	www.rte.ie /business/2005/0216/japan.html (235 words)

	Cabinet Office of the Government - Japan - Equal Employment Opportunities
		In September 1996, the Liaison Conference for the Promotion of Gender Equality (EGALITE network) was established by the Headquarters for the Promotion of Gender Equality to promote wide-ranging liaison among various fields and levels of society including promoting the exchange of information and opinions toward advancing nationwide efforts to realise a Gender-equal society.
		Located in the Cabinet Office, the Gender Equality Bureau is involved in the advancement of women in Japan and maintains a gender information web site and provides support for the Minister for Women’s Affairs.
		The Office has produced White papers, Reports and is involved in the National Plan of Action.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/japan/cabinet.htm (252 words)

	Cabinet Office of Japan – Web Listings
		The Cabinet Office, government of Japan assists the general strategic functions of the Cabinet by drafting plans.
		The Decoration Bureau of the Cabinet Office is responsible for administrative duties pertaining to the conferral of awards, from conducting studies and...
		Financed and organized by the Cabinet Office of Japan, this website is coordinated by Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd., Japan.
	www.business.com /directory/government_and_trade/by_country/japan/cabinet/ministries/cabinet_office/weblistings.asp (480 words)

	Japan, Lars E.O. Svensson
		"Monetary Policy and Japan’s Liquidity Trap," prepared for the ESRI International Conference on Policy Options for Sustainable Economic Growth in Japan, Cabinet Office, Tokyo, September 14, 2005, PDF.
		The line: Monetary policy in Japan has focused on reducing expectations of future interest rates, but a more effective policy in a liquidity trap is to increase expectations of the future price level.
		Fortunately for Japan, the effects of a depreciation and a peg of the yen depend on the whole policy package and will be much more widespread under the foolproof way.
	www.princeton.edu /~svensson/japan/japan.htm (1622 words)

	Japan into seventh quarter of growth - www.smh.com.au
		Japan is enjoying its best run of economic news for six years, with new figures showing the second largest economy is growing at an annualised rate of 2.2 per cent.
		Exports have been the main driver of Japan's revival but signs are growing of domestic demand starting to recover, playing an important role in the growth figures.
		Aware of the threat to the recovery, the Bank of Japan has been trying to stem the appreciation of the yen, selling ¥16.2 trillion in the year to October.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/14/1068674383253.html (582 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		Japan’s elderly population (aged 65 or older) is the biggest among the industrialized nations, while the nation’s birthrate is the record lowest.
		Japan’s demographic crisis raises three major issues, -- the pension system, immigration, and women -- all of which are undermining the world’s second largest economy.
		Japan’s public pension system, which is criticized as being on the verge of collapse, needs to be reformed.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=102450 (2847 words)

	Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet
		Koizumi presented his favorite plan to privatize the post office which helps to deliver the LDP’s organized rural vote through the influence of the chiefs of local post offices and their families.
		Koizumi is Japan's first bachelor to ascend to the post of Prime Minister since Shigeru Yoshida left in the 1950s.
		He was chief cabinet secretary under the late Takeo Fukuda, transport minister under Zenko Suzuki, education minister in the cabinet of Yasuhiro Nakasone, chief cabinet secretary under the late Sousuke Uno and home affairs minister under Kiichi Miyazawa.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo18/koizumi_japan.htm (2416 words)

	Numbers don't add up in Japan's guesstimates of economic data \| Business \| The Australian
		JAPAN'S Cabinet Office on Friday lowered the GDP growth estimate for the September quarter from 0.5 per cent to just 0.2 per cent; if it hadn't happened so often before, that would be remarkable.
		Until relatively recently the Cabinet Office didn't release preliminary GDP estimates; it waited until all data had been processed.
		Japan should start again, says Jerram, with an independent statistician's office to run the whole process, as in Britain or Australia.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20918550-643,00.html (710 words)

	China urges Japan to follow non-nuclear principles - iht,asia,China Japan Nuclear - Asia - Pacific - International ...
		China hopes that Japan will "follow its three non-nuclear principles, and take a responsible attitude in upholding peace and stability in the region," the ministry said in a brief statement.
		Japan's Cabinet Office said in a statement Tuesday that the pacifist constitution "does not necessarily ban the country from possessing any weapons, even nuclear ones, if they are the necessary minimum for self-defense," according to Japan's Kyodo News agency.
		Japan's U.S.-drafted postwar constitution bans the use of force in settling international disputes.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/11/15/asia/AS_GEN_China_Japan_Nuclear.php (465 words)

	wfrv.com - Japan Bans North Korean Imports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Japan took the steps Wednesday to punish North Korea for its apparent nuclear test.
		Japan's Cabinet Office made the announcement after an emergency security meeting late Wednesday.
		Earlier Wednesday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hisayasu Shiozaki demanded that Pyongyang return immediately and unconditionally to the six-party nuclear talks, and honor promises to freeze its missile program and strengthen regional peace under a 2002 bilateral pact.
	wfrv.com /topstories/topstories_story_284091110.html (521 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Japan's textbook row
		For decades Japan and its closest neighbors have tussled over what lessons should be learnt from World War II.
		South Korea and China, which still carry the scars of Japanese aggression, want to ensure the legacy of the war is respected.
		They now accuse Japan of sanctioning school textbooks that critics say gloss over Japan's colonial and wartime atrocities.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/japan.history (143 words)

	CNN.com - Japan GDP shrinks more than expected - March 8, 2002
		Japan's stocks rose after the figures were announced, even though the fourth-quarter slump was worse than expected
		The Japanese economy shrank 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the cabinet office reported.
		Japan got a jolt of good news on Friday from its domestic wholesale prices.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/03/08/japan.gdp (533 words)

	Cabinet Office (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cabinet Office (内閣府; Naikaku-fu) is an agency in the Cabinet of Japan.
		It is responsible for handling the day to day affairs of the cabinet.
		The Cabinet Secretary position is usually given to a sitting minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cabinet_Office_(Japan) (85 words)

	Japan Counterfeit Goods and Piracy Market
		According to a survey conducted by Japan's Cabinet Office, 45 percent of respondents believe that buying a counterfeit or pirated good is acceptable due to its price.
		In a 2004 survey by the Japan Patent Office, 27.4 percent of corporations who participated in the survey experienced some type of damage due to counterfeiting.
		Japan Patent Office, "FY 2004 Survey Report on Losses Caused by Counterfeiting", March 2005.
	www.havocscope.com /Counterfeit/japan.htm (143 words)

	Asia News : China-Japan Relations on the Mend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After lengthy consultations, China and Japan "have finally agreed to overcome this political impediment damaging bilateral relations," Wang said of the Yasukuni Shrine issue.
		Both top-level meetings had significantly improved bilateral ties and were widely regarded in Japan as a positive turn in the bilateral relationship, the Japanese Consul in Hong Kong, Shigekazu Sato was quoted by the South China Morning Post as saying.
		Wang said the sound momentum of improving relations between the two countries could be maintained by consolidating the political basis in bilateral relations, that is, properly handle such sensitive issues as the wartime history and Taiwan.
	www.keralanext.com /news/?id=920655 (473 words)

	SPACE.com -- Japan Plans September Launch for New Spy Satellite
		Japan's MTSAT-2 Earth-watching satellite launches spaceward atop an H-2A rocket in a Feb. 18, 2006 space shot staged from Tanegashima Space Center.
		The government's original plan was to put a total of eight intelligence-gathering satellites into orbit through 2006 to keep watch on the communist country, but that has been scaled back to four.
		Though Japan's intelligence-gathering satellites are not under military control, Japan's ruling party proposed earlier this year that the military be allowed to use the country's space program.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/ap_060726_japan_spysatellite.html (601 words)

	Sino-Japanese ties slowly on the mend_Politics—China Economic Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After serious and repeated consultations, China and Japan "have finally agreed to overcome this political impediment damaging bilateral relations," Wang said of the Yasukuni Shrine issue.
		The two top-level meetings in two months had significantly promoted bilateral ties and were widely regarded in Japan as a positive turn in the bilateral relationship, the Japanese Consul in Hong Kong, Shigekazu Sato was quoted by the South China Morning Post as saying.
		Wang said to maintain the sound momentum for improving relations between the two countries, both should consolidate the political basis in bilateral relations, that is, properly handle such sensitive issues as the wartime history and Taiwan.
	en.ce.cn /National/Politics/200612/13/t20061213_9747484.shtml (558 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		Commenting on China's currency reform, the report underscores the advisability of using a combination of methods, such as expanding the flotation band and tying it to a basket of currencies.
		The Cabinet Office devised its forecast by gathering growth-rate estimates from private-sector research institutes in 22 major countries.
		While the 3.2% growth expected for 2005 is lower than the 3.9% recorded in 2004, it is on par with the 3.4% average growth rate recorded in the 10 years after the mid-1990's.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GF08Dh02.html (400 words)

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