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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.

The 227th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on Koizumi’ s speech at the Shangri-la Dialogue, Takaichi’ s scheduled Europe and India visit, the Japan-Indonesia defense ministerial meeting, the enactment of the FY 2026 supplementary budget, the continued discussions around the consumption tax cut, the legislature’ s position on stable Imperial Household succession, the GOJ securing access to Anthropic’ s Claude Mythos frontier AI model, Japan’ s participation in the U.S. Genesis Mission, Japan’ s response to the possibility of additional U.S. tariffs, the “quiet contingency” in the form of depopulation, and more.

The 226th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the Quad foreign ministerial meeting, the LDP’ s recommendations for the security documents revision, the Japan-Philippines summit meeting, media reports on delayed Tomahawk missile delivery to Japan, the ongoing debate on the FY 2026 supplementary budget, the ongoing discussions on the consumption tax cut, progress on key legislation, the status of the legislature’ s position on stable Imperial Household succession, OpenAI granting access to its frontier AI model, the Nikkei index hitting new highs, the Monthly Economic Report in May, and more.