Parliament’s extraordinary session wrapped up Tuesday having showcased a major change in the balance of political power — the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling coalition partner Komeito could not, and will not, pass bills as they please. The key […]
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The ruling coalition on Friday approved an annual tax reform proposal for the next fiscal year starting in April, including an increase of the tax-free income threshold from ¥1.03 million ($6,610) to ¥1.23 million, after signing an agreement to “continue
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The average retail gasoline price, currently about ¥175 per liter, is expected to rise by over ¥5, as the government has announced it will reduce subsidies to oil wholesalers. Until now, the industry ministry has subsidized 60% of gasoline costs
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Japan’s top business lobby has proposed a policy plan to boost the country’s gross domestic product to ¥1 quadrillion ($6.6 trillion), urging the government to raise taxes on the rich to achieve a “virtuous cycle of growth and distribution.” The
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday submitted to the Lower House a new bill to revise the political funding law that would ban so-called funding for political activities but allow for expenditures used on certain highly sensitive activities to
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In the spring of 1946, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Japanese Methodist minister who had been educated in the United States, and Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist John Hersey came together for a project of dire importance — to preserve the stories of
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The health ministry has found widespread examples of overwork and work-related stress in the entertainment and health care industries, it said in its 2024 white paper on karōshi (death from overwork) prevention measures released Friday. A survey conducted between October
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Many of Japan’s top universities moved up in the latest World University Rankings announced on Wednesday, with five, including the University of Tokyo, ranked in the top 200. In the annual rankings for 2025 released by Times Higher Education (THE),
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After nearly 60 years, former professional boxer Iwao Hakamata has been exonerated. Ahead of a Thursday deadline to file an appeal against last month’s not-guilty verdict of the Shizuoka District Court, which heard a rare retrial of the 1966 murder
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A group photograph of Cabinet ministers taken last week underwent minor digital edits before being posted online by the government, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi admitted Monday following media reports of the picture’s alteration. The digital manipulation came to light
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