The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan seeks wage hikes, over 1% GDP growth as population shrinksTOKYO - Japan will exhaust "all policy tools" to sustain wage hikes that will be crucial in finally ending deflation, and pave the way for the economy to consistently grow over 1 percent even as its population is projected to shrink rapidly, a draft government policy blueprint said Tuesday.In the latest economic and fiscal policy blueprint, the government views the coming years until fiscal 2030 as a critical period for Japan, already one of th…READ FULL ARTICLE