TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's incoming ruling coalition will review the country's mid-term fiscal plan and could scrap its annual spending cap to boost public expenditure to revive the economy, several government sources said on Wednesday. Full story
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Candidates hit the streets on Tuesday at the official start of a campaign for a parliamentary election that is expected to return the opposition Liberal Democrats to power but risks furthering the policy stalemate plaguing the world's third-biggest economy. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's opposition Liberal Democratic Party's lead has shrunk in the polls ahead of a December 16 election, suggesting the conservative party and its partner may need help to make up a majority and threatening more policy confusion for the world's third-biggest economy. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has postponed a visit to Russia planned for next month citing President Vladimir Putin's health problems, Japanese media reported on Friday. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's opposition leader Shinzo Abe said on Friday he would leave it to the Bank of Japan to decide on how to achieve its policy objectives, softening his earlier demands specifying what steps it should take to beat deflation. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Friday it would be wrong to have the central bank finance public debt, regardless of whether it underwrote bonds from the government or bought them from the market. Full story
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan , attends a news conference at his party's election headquarters in Tokyo December 16, 2012. Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party surged back to power in an election on Sunday just three years after a devastatin
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan , leaves a news conference with portraits of himself reading "Decision" in the background, at his party's election headquarters in Tokyo December 16, 2012. Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party surged back to pow
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan , arrives at a news conference with posters of himself reading "Decision" in the background, at his party's election headquarters in Tokyo December 16, 2012. Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party surged back to p
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who is also the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan , bows as he leaves a news conference at his party's election headquarters in Tokyo December 16, 2012. Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party surged back to power in an election on Sunday just thre
