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Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–The number of new influenza patients in Japan remained above the warning level of 30 per medical institution last week, the health ministry said Friday. New flu cases reported by 3,000 regularly monitored hospitals and clinics across the

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–While the Japanese government’s fiscal 2026 budget bill, adopted on Friday, calls for record-high spending on social security, its efforts to reduce the health insurance premium burden on the working generation are still limited. The budget bill allocates

Beijing, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–The Chinese government is instructing travel agencies in the country to reduce the number of group tours to Japan, it was learned Friday. One agency has been told to lower the frequency of such tours to about 60

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s education ministry said Friday that it has revised the calculation method for the basic school survey, after it was pointed out that the survey’s university entry rate had been calculated without reflecting the rate of graduates from

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government plans to issue bonds totaling 180,692 billion yen in fiscal 2026, up 3,835.2 billion yen from the fiscal 2025 initial level, the Finance Ministry said Friday. New bonds to cover a revenue shortfall under the

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–Swelling debt-servicing costs, shown by Japan’s fiscal 2026 initial budget drafted by the government, will pose the risk of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s expansionary fiscal policy losing market confidence, experts warn. The draft budget, adopted at a cabinet

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japanese screenwriter Makiko Uchidate, known for writing scripts for many television drama series in the country, died of acute left-side heart failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Dec. 17. She was 77. Uchidate was born in Akita

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–In response to continuing military buildups by China and North Korea, the Japanese government has set defense-related spending at a record 9,035.3 billion yen under its draft fiscal 2026 budget adopted at Friday’s cabinet meeting. The figure, including

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government’s general-account tax revenue in fiscal 2026, which starts next April, is projected to reach a record high of 83,735 billion yen, up 7.6 pct from the level under the fiscal 2025 initial budget, according to

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Children and Families Agency on Friday decided to collect 600 billion yen as so-called child-rearing support funds in the form of extra fees to be added to public medical insurance premiums in fiscal 2026, which starts next