Japan (LDP)

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (238+ words) The main theme is a "strong economy"The Takaichi administration identifies breaking away from the deflationary equilibrium of the past 30 years—characterized by "no investment, no wage growth, and no consumption"—as its most important task.The cycle it aims…...

14+ hour, 46+ min ago   (179+ words) Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi touted her plan to cut the consumption tax on food and pay support payments to workers at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, on…...

13+ hour, 30+ min ago   (73+ words) Read full story here Typhoon Surigae may approach eastern Japan including Tokyo on Thursday U.S. Marine arrested for suspected murder-robbery in Okinawa Documents show China weighed military action in Hong Kong in 2014 Japan urges Iran's "constructive" response on navigation through straits…...

19+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1271+ words) Masa Nakayama, pictured in the Japanese weekly pictorial magazine Asahigraph, October 22, 1952. (Public domain) Nakayama deserves much more than that. Her life was extraordinary even before she entered politics. Born in Nagasaki in 1891 to a Japanese mother and an American father,…...

15+ hour, 55+ min ago   (126+ words) The Japan Times Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday defended her plan to combine a consumption tax cut with income-based cash payments, putting relief from rising living costs at the center of her responses to Lower House questioning.Responding to…...

20+ hour ago   (106+ words) 20:44:25 - Japan's prime minister announces cuts to the consumption tax on food products. And a 5 year action plan to boost domestic investment. Investors worry that borrowing good at to the country's already massive debt. But what could be a setback is…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (448+ words) TWO shipping containers placed in a front garden without planning permission can remain in place, planners have agreed. The containers, which are 5.5 metres high and wide and have a combined length of 6.25m, have been placed together on elevated timber sleepers…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (251+ words) 'Will keep persuading North Korea through various channels' PM meets families of abductees, including Yokota Megumi's brother Families report on US visit, request American cooperation Takaichi reaffirms willingness to hold summit with Kim Jong-un Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae met…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (248+ words) Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a policy speech in Tokyo, Japan, October 5, 2026. /VCG Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi used her policy speech at the opening of the 222nd extraordinary Diet session on October 5 to press lawmakers to back her flagship…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (228+ words) Plans to build 33 homes in Ansty are to be considered by Mid Sussex District Council. The application, from Devine Homes, for land in Bolney Road, will be put to a meeting of the planning committee on Thursday, October 8, where it…...