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A 69 day extraordinary Diet session opens next week as the first real test of her reshuffled cabinet, with a food tax cut and population decline strategy on the agenda even as questions resurface about lawmakers tied to the LDP's old slush fund scandal.
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Washington wants Tokyo to commit to spending three and a half percent of GDP on defense within five years, but after meeting Trump in New York, Takaichi is signaling that timeline looks unrealistic even as she agreed to deepen deterrence cooperation.
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Yoshimasa Hayashi was the only one of Sanae Takaichi's four rivals from last year's leadership race to lose his government post in this week's reshuffle, a move insiders read as freeing him up to challenge her again next autumn.
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will sit down with President Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly just two days before he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, giving Tokyo a narrow window to shape the American view heading into that summit.
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After months of almost no political contact between Tokyo and Beijing, a delegation of Japanese lawmakers is seeking to restore some working dialogue, even as the dispute over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan remains unresolved.
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A new uncapped growth investment category worth twelve trillion yen let ministries request money for AI, semiconductors and robotics without the usual ceiling, pushing next year's budget requests to their highest level on record for a fourth straight year.
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