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An expert panel at the government's Tax Commission has noted that overseas sellers of inexpensive goods effectively exploit tax exemption systems for small-ticket item imports.
The change is expected to be approved within the current fiscal year, then gradually rolled out in school textbooks and other materials.
The suspects allegedly posed as police officers when calling victims in the Kanto region to swindle them of cash.
Once dismissed as something of a placebo for sustainability advocates — one supply-chain guru practically snorted in ...
The shadowy contract, which allows for the construction of a resort on one of the country's last undisturbed Red Sea beaches, was halted but not permanently canceled.
Troops were already operating on the outskirts of Gaza City, and Hamas was now a 'battered and bruised' guerrilla force, ...
The monsoon has brought havoc across Pakistan in recent days with the death toll from floods that hit the mountainous northwest on Friday rising to 385.
During a U.S. naval test off the California coast last month, which was designed to showcase the Pentagon’s top autonomous ...
A lawyer and scholar with deep ties to Tokyo’s business and legal communities, Green opened the Ford Foundation’s Tokyo ...
A high-pressure system that keeps warm air near the surface has caused prolonged hot weather in Japan since June, the ...
Now restored in 4K, Kon Ichikawa’s film is a far from simple survival story that stares into humanity’s darkest corners.
In the year from April, the infrastructure ministry will compile advanced solutions to congestion in women's rooms already in ...