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00:16

INTERVIEW: Nippon Ishin May Leave Govt if Seat Cut...

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2025/11/27

Takashi Endo, parliamentary affairs chief of Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除, warned Thursday that his party may leave the ruling bloc if talks with its coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party, on reducing the number of House of Representatives seats falter.

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00:14

Japan FY '26 Budget Policy to Highlight...

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2025/11/27

Japan's upcoming basic policy for the fiscal 2026 regular budget will highlight spending to promote investment in artificial intelligence and other select areas in order to realize a powerful economy, a draft showed Thursday.

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00:08

Dolls Featuring Iconic Figures, Events of 2025...

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2025/11/27

Traditional Japanese "hina" dolls featuring this year's iconic people and events were unveiled Thursday to the press in Tokyo.

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00:09

Japan-Central Asia Summit to Be Held in Tokyo in Dec.

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2025/11/27

The Japanese government is preparing to hold a summit with five Central Asian countries in Tokyo in mid-December, informed sources said Thursday.

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00:16

Onuma Elected ICAO Council President, First from...

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2025/11/27

Toshiyuki Onuma has been elected the next council president of the International Civil Aviation Organization, becoming the first Japanese to lead the U.N. specialized agency that sets global aviation rules, the Japanese transport ministry said Thursday.

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00:13

Maebashi Mayor Resigns amid Hotel Scandal

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2025/11/27

Akira Ogawa, mayor of Maebashi, the capital of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, is set to resign on Thursday following a scandal involving repeated visits to a hotel with a married male subordinate.

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00:16

International Conference Rejects Blanket Restriction...

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2025/11/27

Signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the Washington convention, voted at a committee meeting on Thursday to reject a proposal to restrict the trade of all eel species, including the Japanese eel.

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00:12

2 More Local Govts Back Restart of N-Plant in Hokkaido

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2025/11/27

The village of Kamoenai and the town of Kyowa have expressed their support for the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.

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00:15

Japan's Asahi Sees 1.9 M. Sets of Personal Data...

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2025/11/27

Japanese beverage giant Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. said Thursday that 1,914,000 sets of personal information were compromised due to the recent cyberattack that prompted a suspension of shipments of beer and other products.

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00:14

Saga Improper DNA Analyses Had No Impact on Probes: NPA

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2025/11/27

Improper DNA analyses conducted by a former Saga prefectural police member have had no adverse impact on investigations by the police in southwestern Japan, the National Police Agency said in an interim report on Thursday.

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00:13

Japan Upper House Panel Votes to Lower Gasoline Tax

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2025/11/27

Japan's House of Councillors Financial Affairs Committee on Thursday unanimously approved legislation to scrap the provisional gasoline tax surcharge of 25.1 yen per liter, effective Dec. 31.

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00:11

Tokyo Govt to Shift to Fixed-Rate Accommodation Tax

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2025/11/27

The Tokyo metropolitan government said on Wednesday that it plans to shift its accommodation tax from fixed amounts to a fixed rate of 3pctof fees in fiscal 2027.

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00:11

Trump Advises Takaichi Not to Provoke China over...

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2025/11/27

U.S. President Donald Trump has advised Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to temper the tone after she angered China over Taiwan, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

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00:12

Japan to Tighten Re-Entry Screening over Medical Bill...

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2025/11/27

Japan is considering tightening re-entry screening for foreign nationals who have failed to pay medical bills worth 10,000 yen or more in the country, lower than the current threshold of 200,000 yen.

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00:14

Yamada to Sell " Human Washing...

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2025/11/27

Home electronics retailer Yamada Holdings Co. has said it will sell a human washing machine, which attracted attention at the World Exposition in the western Japanese city of Osaka, at its flagship store in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district.

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00:12

BOJ's Latent Losses on JGB Holdings Log Record

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2025/11/27

The Bank of Japan said Wednesday that unrealized losses on its holdings of Japanese government bonds widened to a record 32,825.8 billion yen at the end of September.

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00:12

Sales of Farmed, Feminized Eels Spreading in Japan

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2025/11/26

Sales of cultivated feminized eels are beginning to spread in Japan, as the Aichi Fisheries Research Institute in central Japan and others have successfully developed a method to feminize eels.

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00:15

Japan Prefectures Urge Measures to Cope with Tax...

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2025/11/26

The governors of Japan's 47 prefectures urged the central government Wednesday to implement measures to help them cope with expected declines in local government revenues resulting from the planned abolition of the provisional gasoline and diesel tax surcharge.

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00:08

Tokyo Deaflympics Ends with Record Medal Tally for Japan

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2025/11/26

The Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics drew to a close on Wednesday with a closing ceremony held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.

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00:12

Japan Tax Revenue to Top 80 T. Yen for 1st Time in FY...

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2025/11/26

The Japanese government's general-account tax revenue is set to reach around 80.7 trillion yen in fiscal 2025, topping 80 trillion yen for the first time, it was learned Wednesday.

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