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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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A fresh Nikkei survey puts the prime minister's approval at 58 percent, a fall of 10 points in a single month and the first time her cabinet has dropped under the 60 percent line since she took office. The steepest damage is among unaffiliated voters, the group that decides Japanese elections.
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The Takaichi government is knitting together a cross-agency body meant to bring order to a subject that has become one of the most charged in Japanese politics. The goal is a single command post for everything from residency rules to over-tourism, and it arrives as public anxiety over foreigners keeps rising.
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The Japan Innovation Party is spending the final days of an extended parliamentary session pushing the two bills it demanded as the price of joining the government. With the opposition walking out and cracks showing inside the ruling camp, the party is testing how much its partnership with the Liberal Democrats can actually deliver.
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are set to endorse a roughly 3 billion dollar hydrogen and ammonia venture led by IHI and ACME Group during her visit to New Delhi.
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President Trump ordered strikes on Iranian targets, accusing Tehran of breaking a week old ceasefire after a drone hit a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
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