Tag Archives: China

The 237th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on Japan contemplating its response to President Putin’ s visit to the Northern Territories, JBIC’ s new loans for the Japan-U.S. Strategic Investment Initiative, the multilateral joint statement on ICBM launch notifications, Takaichi’ s August 15 speech, ongoing government discussions on the bill to introduce the consumption tax cut, Sony and TSMC’ s announcement on the production of next-generation image sensors, the yen’ s rebound following the Japan-U.S. coordinated market intervention, the Economy Watchers Survey for July, and more.

The 236th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on Japan’ s new Defense White Paper, Foreign Minister Motegi’ s visit to Latin America and the Caribbean, the LDP’ s intelligence reform proposals, the GOJ adopting the food consumption tax cut, Prime Minister Takaichi’ s speeches in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the aftermath of the yen-buying intervention, plans to construct one of the largest AI data centers in Akita Prefecture, public pension revenue in FY 2025, the quarterly economic situation report, and more.

The 235th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on Japan’ s announcement of participation in the EU’ s Horizon Europe, Defense Minister Koizumi’ s scheduled travel to the United Kingdom and Australia, the conclusion of the special Diet session and Takaichi’ s dwindling public approval, the political decision to move forward with the consumption tax cut, the establishment of a new intelligence apparatus, guidelines for the FY 2027 budget request, the Japan-U.S. “intervention” to tackle the yen’ s depreciation, the GOJ’ s new cybersecurity guidelines for critical infrastructure operators, the first round of the GOJ’ s regional industrial cluster plan, the GOJ’ s forecasted real GDP growth rate, and more.

The 234th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on Foreign Minister Motegi’ s attendance at the ASEAN-related ministerial meetings, Canada joining the GCAP as an observer, Motegi’ s brief encounters with his Chinese and Russian counterparts in Manila, the official security assistance agreement with Cambodia, the adopted Honebuto and Growth Strategy, the end of this year ’ s special Diet session, the draft guidelines for FY 2027 budget requests, the GOJ’ s digital and regulatory reform plans, the yen’ s depreciation to ¥163 to the dollar, the status of national pension premium payments for FY 2025, and more.

The 233rd edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on China’ s protest to Foreign Minister Motegi’ s South China Sea statement, Defense Minister Koizumi’ s scheduled travel to Europe, extension of the Diet session, the Diet enacting proposed amendments to the Imperial Household Law, progress on key legislation, the cross-party agreement on the cash handout in FY 2029, the updated AI Basic Plan and the Integrated Innovation Strategy 2026, the launch of a Japanese consortium building a domestic foundation AI model, the Nikkei stock index dropping from a cooling off of AI momentum, the increase in average household income, and more.

The 232nd edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on Takaichi’ s absence from the NATO Summit, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kunimitsu’ s visit to Ukraine, China launching ballistic missiles from strategic nuclear submarines, the Lower House passing proposed amendments to the Imperial Household Law, the Diet sorting out the standoff between ruling and opposition parties, progress on legislation as the Diet normalizes proceedings, the draft update of the AI Basic Plan and interim vertical AI strategy, the draft of the Integrated Innovation Strategy 2026, local tax revenue hitting a record high last year, and more.

The 231st edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the Takaichi-Modi Summit meeting, progress on the U.S. Pax Silica Summit, the reassurance that the GCAP will go ahead as scheduled, the GOJ’ s proposed drafts for the Honebuto and Growth Strategy, the chaotic state of Diet affairs ahead of the end of this year ’ s special session, the adopted proposals to amend the Imperial Household Law, the draft regulatory reform report, state funding for a domestic AI foundation model, the yield on newly issued ten-year government bonds reaching a thirty-year high, the BOJ’ s latest TANKAN report, and more.

The 230th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the LDP and Ishin’ s policy recommendations toward revising the three strategic national security documents, the arrest of two Japanese nationals in China for violating export control measures, the GOJ’ s position on deploying the JSDF to the Strait of Hormuz, the GOJ’ s public-private investment plan for the strategic growth sectors, the Takaichi-Yoshimura summit to negotiate a priority bill, mounting opposition to the GOJ’ s consumption tax cut proposal, the outline of the proposed amendments to the Imperial Household Law, the Nikkei Stock Average reaching record highs, the GOJ gaining access to new frontier AI models, the GOJ’ s plans to craft a new energy security plan, household financial assets as of the end of March, and more.

The 229th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on Takaichi’ s first G7 Summit, Takaichi’ s visit to the United Kingdom and Italy, business delegation visits to China, the LDP and Ishin’ s policy recommendations on the strategic national security documents, the LDP’ s one percent consumption tax cut proposal, key legislative updates in the current Diet session, the public-private investment plan related to the seventeen strategic growth sectors, the BOJ raising the policy interest rate, the GOJ’ s response to the suspension of access to Anthropic’ s frontier AI models, semiconductor manufacturing partnerships with the United Kingdom and Italy, the Nikkei Stock Average hitting a new high, the trade balance in May, and more.

The 228th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the Japan-Malaysia summit, the postponement of a business delegation visit to China, the second meeting of the GOJ expert panel reviewing the strategic security documents, the legislature’ s position on Imperial Household succession, the series of LDP policy recommendations to the GOJ, key legislation updates, Komeito’ s rumored merger with the Centrist Reform Alliance, the Intellectual Property Promotion Plan 2026, Kioxia overtaking Toyota as the company with the highest market capitalization, the Economy Watchers Survey for May, and more.