Japan's defense chief has traveled to Australia to deepen a partnership built on the biggest arms export in his country's postwar history. The visit is about far more than frigates. It is about two democracies binding themselves together as the security of the Indo-Pacific grows more uncertain.
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The Japanese internet group best known for online shopping is helping broker military strike drones for the country's armed forces, teaming with Germany's Helsing, Europe's most valuable defense startup. It is a striking sign of how far Japan's rearmament and the lessons of Ukraine now reach into the corporate world.
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Barely a week after Japan and the United States spent billions to haul the yen back from a 40 year low, the currency has surrendered half of those gains. Now Tokyo is leaning on words instead of money, threatening more action while traders quietly test whether the authorities will really pull the trigger again.
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Adrian Sydenham
The world's most important chipmaker is pouring a further 100 billion dollars into its US operations and lifting this year's spending plans, wagering that the hunger for artificial intelligence hardware is only getting started.
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After cross-party talks collapsed without agreement, the prime minister has decided to press ahead alone, ordering her party to draft a temporary cut in the consumption tax on food from 8 percent to 1 percent. It is a signature pledge finally moving, and a fiscal gamble whose bill will come due later.
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The prime minister leans on the Japan Innovation Party to pass laws through the upper house, yet the very bills that bind the two sides together are splitting her own Liberal Democrats and dragging her approval ratings down.
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