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Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a plan Monday to reduce the consumption tax rate for food items to zero for two years as part of her ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s policy pledges for the upcoming general election.

Sendai, Miyagi Pref., Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a man, 29, to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for transporting a then high school student to Myanmar last year to get him to engage in fraud

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Monday that she will dissolve the House of Representatives at the start of this year’s ordinary session of the Diet, the country’s parliament, to be convened Friday, to call a snap general

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government is unlikely to secure the passage of its fiscal 2026 draft budget by the March 31 end of the current fiscal 2025, after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced on Monday her decision to dissolve the

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Monday that she will dissolve the House of Representatives at the start of this year’s ordinary session of the Diet, the country’s parliament, to be convened Friday, to call a snap general

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Yoshinobu Tsutsui, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, on Monday affirmed that the public and private sectors will cooperate to strengthen the supply chains for critical materials. At a meeting

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. said Monday it launched the same day a service to allow individual customers to make fixed-amount monthly deposits in foreign currency accounts using credit cards. In the first-ever service in Japan, users of

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Monday that she will dissolve the House of Representatives at the start of the ordinary parliamentary session, which is to be convened on Friday, to call a snap general election. The prime

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)–The yield on the newest issue of 10-year Japanese government bonds, the country’s key long-term interest rate, briefly rose to 2.275 pct in Tokyo interdealer bond trading Monday, reaching its highest level since mid-February 1999. The rise came

(Adnkronos) – The moderate socialist Antonio José Seguro won the first round of the Portuguese presidential elections yesterday, followed by far-right leader André Ventura; the two will face each other in a runoff on February 8.  In the five decades since Portugal