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The Weekly Observer: April 4-8

The 31st edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics! This week focuses on the possible “seventh wave” of COVID-19 cases, GOJ plans to encourage booster shots among the youth, the NATO/G7 foreign ministers’ meetings, Speaker Pelosi’s postponed trip to Japan, engagements before the Japan-Philippines “2+2” meeting, LDP plans to restructure the 3 security and defense documents, the Kishida Cabinet’s first six months, the emergency stimulus package, the bill promoting economic security, opposition disunity ahead of the House of Councillors election, macro and microeconomic statistics, GOJ commitments to COVAX, the Japan Business Federation’s digitization proposal, the restructured Tokyo Stock Exchange, JCP Chairman Shii’s quote on the JSDF’s role in a crisis, and more.

The Weekly Observer: March 14-18

The 28th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics! This week focuses on the GOJ’s decision to lift all pre-emergency measures, Japan’s booster shots, the Japan-India summit, the Japan-Australia-India trilateral supply chain resilience initiative, Japan-U.S. joint exercises, North Korea’s missile test, Chinese incursions into Japanese waters, MOD’s new cyber and space units, the 89th LDP Convention, the FY 2022 budget vote, ruling and opposition parties preparing for the HoC election, progress on unfreezing the trigger clause on the gas tax, the BOJ’s monetary easing policy, latest on the Kawai bribery scandal, the earthquake, the pensioners’ cash handout, and more.