New rules should enhance efficiency, profitability

Coordination needed between government offices

Impractical regulations need to be eased

Firms should stop unfair hiring practices

Cooperation and fair competition demanded

Gentlemanly behavior demanded of North

Let capital circulate unrestricted

Plan lacks specific funding scheme

Japan’s rightwing political leaders, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have raised the ire of neighboring countries with acts and remarks denying Tokyo’s pre-1945 wartime atrocities. Abe recently exacerbated the angry sentiment with a photo showing him sitting in the cockpit of a training jet numbered 731, which recalled the name of a germ warfare unit the Imperial Japanese Army ran during World War II. His move toward revising a postwar pacifist constitution has prompted concerns about the r

North Korea urged to respond favorably to idea

Blue House lacks damage control system

Big firms still bully suppliers

Scandal should serve as final lesson for Park

Measures needed to ease public worries

The Japanese yen fell below the 100-per-dollar mark over the weekend, sending shivers down the spine of the Korean government, which was deeply concerned about its potential impact on the fragile Korean economy. A weak yen is set to boost Japan’s exports of autos, ships, steel products and other items at the expense of their Korean counterparts.On Friday morning, the yen weakened to 101 per dollar in the Tokyo foreign exchange market, breaking the 100-per-dollar mark for the first time in four y