semigovernmental

A day earlier, The Japan Times detailed a report by the Institute for International Policy Studies, a semigovernmental think tank, which asserted that "in order for the entire Asian region to keep growing, [Japan] must create the third-polar regime in Asia by introducing the Asian common currency, which stands on par with the U.S. dollar and the euro."

Michael J. Panzner: Anti-Dollar Contagion Gains Pace 2009

The Japanese government will be offering $5 billion in loans via the semigovernmental JBIC to companies that need foreign funds, and it is taking other steps to help companies through the global credit crunch.

Honda Seeks Tokyo Loan for U.S. Operations 2009

And Hatoyama has pledged to continue trimming the fat off Japan's public sector, eliminating many of the amorphous semigovernmental agencies that seem irrelevant to most citizens.

How Hatoyama Will Lead 2009

Takashi Hata, who was on loan from the MOF to a semigovernmental corporation, was arrested together with a teacher, a figure-skating coach and two other cohorts for possession of amphetamines.

Mighty Fall 2008

Johnson made hundreds of millions, perfectly legally, as the leader of Fannie Mae, the mortgage-bundling semigovernmental agency that helps homeowners of modest means.

Getting to Know Him 2008

The number of foreign travelers who visited Japan in the January to June period rose 35.8 percent from a year earlier to an estimated 4.20 million, ranking second for a first-half period after a record of about 4.34 million in 2008, a semigovernmental body said Monday.

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2010

The sales prices of many of his products are fixed by a semigovernmental cooperative that has not allowed him to pass on his increased costs, Mr. Dahi said.

NYT > Global Home 2009

NEC Corp. 's withdrawal from a semigovernmental project to develop a next-generation supercomputer, which came as a great surprise to the government, has shed light on the many problems such projects face. helicopters began ferrying other remains to shore.

WN.com - Business News 2009

The sales prices of many of his products are fixed by a semigovernmental cooperative that has not allowed him to pass on his increased costs, Mr. Dahi said.

NYT > Home Page 2009

At the same time, both the LDP and the DPJ are on record as wanting to cut waste, which in practice means dissolving the semigovernmental corporations that absorb a good number of ex-bureaucrats.

Observing Japan 2009