Politics & Government
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Kishida’s Son Used Official Car for Sightseeing: Magazine Report
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s eldest son and secretary, Shotaro, used an offic...
January 28, 2023
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Taiwan Honors Abe with Posthumous Medal
Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, awa...
January 28, 2023
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Panel OK’s Easing COVID-19 Legal Designation to Category V
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January 27, 2023
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Japan Bans Tear Gas Exports to Russia
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government has decided additional sanctions on Russia over its invasion of ...
January 27, 2023
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Japan Holds 1st Vice-Ministerial-Level Talks with EU, S. Korea, Australia, N.Z.
Japan affirmed the importance of strengthening cooperation to maintain and enhance free and open int...
January 27, 2023
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Kishida Says to Call on Municipalities to Accept N-Plant Waste Surveys
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday that the government will proactively...
January 27, 2023
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Former Japan PM Yoshihide Suga Calls for Deepening Ties with India
Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called for strengthening Japan-India ties at a ceremony to cele...
January 26, 2023
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Opposition Party Leader Grills Kishida Over Defense, Energy Policies
A question-and-answer session in the House of Representatives began with a leadership duel between P...
January 26, 2023
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Japan’s Ex-PM Mori Says Russia’s Defeat “Unthinkable”
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Russia’s defeat in the war in Ukraine is “unthinkable,” former Prime Minister Y...
January 26, 2023
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Kishida: Household Budgets to Be Considered When Increasing Defense Spending
Solid financial resources will be needed for the drastic strengthening of Japan’s defense capabiliti...
January 26, 2023
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Ruling Party Executive Urges End to Income Limit for Child Allowances
Toshimitsu Motegi, the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, has said the income limit ...
January 26, 2023
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Japanese Govt Set to Legalize Medical Marijuana
The government is poised to allow the use of medical marijuana to treat patients with intractable di...
January 25, 2023
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Japan Govt to Submit Bill to Extend Nuclear Reactor Life Span
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government is slated to submit in late February a bill to allow nuclear rea...
January 25, 2023
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Lower House Speaker Denies Ties to Unification Church
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — House of Representatives Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday that he did not h...
January 25, 2023
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Japan to Ease Rules on Lithium-Ion Battery Warehouses to Increase Domestic Production for EVs
To improve the environment for domestic production of storage batteries, such as lithium-ion batteri...
January 25, 2023
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