TOKYO, Feb. 19 Kyodo -
A successful Group of 20 financial summit in London in April could provide a
''lifeboat for everybody,'' including Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and

TOKYO, Feb. 19 Kyodo - The Bank of Japan said Thursday it will purchase outright up to 1 trillion yen
($10.7 billion) worth of corporate bonds from financial institutions, taking a

TOKYO, Feb. 19 Kyodo - Japan and Switzerland signed a free trade agreement Thursday, paving the way
for the two countries to eliminate tariffs on more than 99 percent of their

TOKYO, Feb. 19 Kyodo - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said Thursday he is anticipating a
''severe'' drop in Japan's gross domestic product data for the first half of

TOKYO, Feb. 19 Kyodo - Japan's economy ''is worsening rapidly'' and is ''in a severe situation'' as
the country faces its worst recession in the postwar era, with weakness in the

TOKYO, Feb. 19 Kyodo - Prime Minister Taro Aso apologized Thursday in the Diet for the resignation on
Tuesday of Shoichi Nakagawa as finance minister and said he, as premier, bears

GENEVA, Feb. 19 Kyodo - World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy says he is counting on Japan to be
more active toward a successful conclusion of the Doha Round of global trade

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MOSCOW, Feb. 18 Kyodo -
In a show of intraparty dissent against Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's

TOKYO, Feb. 18 Kyodo -
The Japanese government has come up with a draft plan to revise the current