Birth of Japan’s 1st Female PM Tops 2025 Domestic News List

Tokyo, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–Following are this year’s top 10 news stories in Japan and abroad selected by Jiji Press, with the appointment of Sanae Takaichi as Japan’s first female prime minister and the launch of a new ruling coalition of her Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai) topping the domestic list: -Japan- (1) Takaichi Becomes Japan’s 1st Female PM, Launches LDP-JIP Coalition (2) “Mr. Pro Baseball” Shigeo Nagashima Dies (3) Nikkei 225 Stock Average Reaches 50,000 for 1st Time (4) LDP-Komeito Coalition Loses Majority in Upper House Election (5) Bear Attacks Surge Nationwide, Cause Record Casualties (6) Govt-Stockpiled Rice Released amid Unabated Inflation (7) Japan Marks 80 Years since World War II, Renews No-War Pledge (8) 2025 World Expo Held in Osaka (9) Japan-China Ties Deteriorate over Takaichi’s Taiwan Remark (10) Japanese Scientists Win Nobel Medicine, Chemistry Prizes -Overseas- (1) Trump Tariffs Throw Global Economy into Turmoil (2) Trump Begins His 2nd Presidential Term (3) Israel, Hamas Reach Deal on 1st Phase of Gaza Peace Plan (4) S. Korean President Yoon Ousted after Impeachment (5) Ohtani Named MVP as Dodgers Win Back-to-Back World Series (6) U.S., Israel Strike Iranian Nuclear Facilities (7) Trump, Putin Fail to Reach Ukraine Ceasefire Deal (8) Britain, France, Canada, Australia Recognize Palestine as State (9) Chinese, Russian, N. Korean Leaders Meet at Beijing Military Parade (10) Fed Resumes Rate Cuts amid Pressure from Trump END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]