. >> he will meet australian trade and investment minister andrew robb in tokyo.hey want to pave the way for prime minister tony abbott's visit to japan in april. but the two countries still have to narrow their differences. the focus of the upcoming talks will be on the tariffs that japan levies on imported beef. >>> trading on the tokyo stock market has remained lackluster so far this year but in 2013 the nikkei surged more than 50%. that pushed up the total amount of financial assets held by japanese households to a record high. bank of japan officials said in a report that these assets came to just over $16 trillion at the end of december. that's up 6% in yen terms from a year earlier. it does mark the highest levels since comparable data became available in 1997. the value of stock holdings climbed more than 38%. mutual funds were up more than 28%. boj officials said japanese households continued to hold more than 53% of their assets in cash and bank deposits, though. the ratio of that did fall nearly 2 percentage points. officials noted that overall, people

japanese agriculture the distribution of the higher she met australian trade and investment minister andrew robb in tokyo. isc said australia is an important trading partner for japan. he said he hopes the two countries can boost agricultural trade. ron said he wants to make progress before australian prime minister tony abbott visits japan early next month. japan currently imposes a thirty eight and a half percent tariff on australian beef japanese officials propose potentially lowering it to around thirty percent over ten years. but australian officials want japan to actually reduce the tariff to about twenty percent. the two sides couldn't find common ground and agreed to continue talks. all in tears in northeastern japan are restoring some reminders of the past people up and down the coast are still finding photographs of the debris of the earthquake and tsunami three years ago the volunteers in iraq to prefecture have collected more than two hundred thousand teachers and they're looking for their owners. she painted. the world. this woman's keepsakes were swept away in the tsunami. after th