Japan is seeking 6.7 billion yen (US$43 million) in next financial year’s initial budget to combat a longhorn beetle that is destroying cherry trees and threatening agricultural production, ecosystems and the country’s
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In a refined café inside the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, where diplomats, executives, and elegantly dressed patrons move with ritual precision, 57-year-old Miki Yamagishi appears indistinguishable from any other middle-class customer enjoying an
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has set her sights on eliminating the 8% consumption tax on food for two years, a key pledge in the lead-up to the February 8 Lower House election.
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The chief financial officer of Nippon Steel Corporation, Takahiko Iwai, told Bloomberg that the long-running steel glut driven by record Chinese exports may be approaching its end, offering hope for a recovery
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The United States and Japan have unveiled the first three industrial projects financed under a $550 billion trade and investment deal signed last year, signaling the start of a major strategic partnership.
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The International Monetary Fund has warned Japan against cutting its consumption tax, cautioning that the move could weaken fiscal stability at a time when borrowing costs on the country’s vast public debt
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Sri Lanka and Japan took a significant step in strengthening their economic ties yesterday with the successful convening of the Sri Lanka–Japan Intergovernmental Economic Policy Dialogue at the Ministry of Finance, Planning
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In the February 8 Lower House election, foreign workers emerged as a central issue for all major parties following a January 23 Cabinet decision calling for 1,231,900 foreign workers by March 2029
More This column originally appeared in China Military. In Greek mythology, Pandora opened Zeus’s box, releasing demons of greed, war, and deceit into the world. Today, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, driven by
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Japan’s OHISAMA demonstration satellite is scheduled for launch in fiscal 2026, embarking on an ambitious mission to wirelessly deliver solar power from space to Earth for the first time. Unlike earlier experiments
More When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called snap elections last month, it was a big gamble. Holding a winter election just four months into her tenure with no real policy record to
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Japan is once again confronting one of the most sensitive questions in its postwar history: whether to revise the Constitution that has defined the nation’s pacifist identity for nearly eight decades. Newly
More Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emerged from Sunday’s snap lower house election with the strongest mandate seen in postwar Japan, a political triumph that reshapes the country’s domestic balance of power while sending
More Japan’s political landscape shifted decisively on Sunday as projections from public broadcaster NHK showed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party surging toward a historic landslide in the Lower House election, consolidating
More Japan’s reliance on foreign labor reached a historic milestone in 2025, as the number of overseas workers climbed to a record 2.57 million, highlighting how deeply the world’s fourth-largest economy is being
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Japan is facing mounting pressure to reduce its heavy reliance on rare earth imports from China as political tensions between Tokyo and Beijing continue to deepen. The challenge has taken on new
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