Tag Archives: Kishida Fumio

The 77th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the Ukraine Recovery Conference, the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Japan’s plan to host its own Ukraine reconstruction meeting, the new defense technology guidelines, the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, GOJ’s response to Biden’s claim on defense spending, the Prime Minister’s press conference, the My Number Card debacle, the seventy-eighth anniversary of the end of the war in Okinawa, proposed AZEC carbon capture and storage rules, the Monthly Economic Report, and more.

The 76th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the JSDF officer killing instructors, North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch, the postponed defense tax hike, the first Space Security Initiative, the prime minister and foreign minister’s foreign trips, the Japan-U.S.-Philippines and Japan-U.S.-ROK national security advisor meetings, ATLA’s defense technology guidelines, the PM’s decision to postpone the dissolution of the Lower House, the Honebuto, the GOJ’s child care policies, the women’s Honebuto, LDP-Komeito electoral cooperation document, GOJ’s designation of 25 fields for patent protection, the BOJ monetary policy meeting, the GOJ’s plan to regulate Apple and Google’s monopoly over OS, the trade balance and CGPI, and more.

The 75th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the Japan-Ukraine telephone meeting, the revised ODA Charter, the LDP panel’s recommendations for defense spending sources, the multilateral statement on economic coercion, Chinese and Russian military activities around Japan, the draft action plan for new capitalism, the final phase of the Diet session, the GOJ’s documents for innovation and tech policy, the GOJ expert panel’s interim thoughts on the security clearance system, the Basic Hydrogen Strategy and Energy White Paper, April’s trade balance, the Economy Watchers Survey, and more.

The 74th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the G7 Hiroshima Summit, Japan’s support for Ukraine, the Quad leaders’ meeting, additional sanctions against Russia, the Space Policy and Defense White Paper drafts, the Honebuto document outline, the defense spending bill, the GOJ’s plan to raise insurance premiums to finance child-rearing policies, Komeito’s decision to end electoral cooperation with the LDP in Tokyo, BOJ Governor emphasizing no changes to monetary policy, Japan-U.S. agreement on semiconductor cooperation roadmap, the Monthly Economic Report, and more.

The 73rd edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the last G7 meetings ahead of the Summit, Japan’s increased support for Ukraine, the EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum, the first use of the Japan-PRC defense hotline, the LGBT legislation, the defense spending bill, the prime minister’s directives on economic policy, semiconductor investments in Japan, the record-high Nikkei 225 index, the latest CPI and trade balance statistics, and more.

The 72nd edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the Kishida-Yoon Summit, the Japan-France “2+2,” Japan-Poland interactions, designations of land critical to national security, the defense spending funding bill, the LGBT legislation, legislative developments in the Diet, the BOJ opinions at the monetary policy meeting last month, impending utility fee hikes, April’s current account balance, and more.

The 71st edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the G7 meetings, the JSDF evacuation of Japanese nationals in Sudan, preparations for a North Korean spy satellite launch, the PM and foreign minister’s trips during the Golden Week holiday, the JSDF-JCG contingency guidelines, the national by-elections, the second half of the unified local elections, concerning population projections, the revised Immigration Control Act, expected reforms to the TITP, the first monetary policy meeting under new BOJ Governor Ueda, METI’s decision to redesignate South Korea as a preferential trading partner, the GOJ’s Monthly Economic Report, and more.

The 70th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting, the JSDF helicopter incident, May’s IPEF negotiations, JSDF dispatch to Sudan, the smoke bomb incident at the prime minister’s stump speech event, the second half of the unified local elections, Japan’s new command center for new infectious diseases, the GOJ’s draft action plan to attract inward FDI, the record-high trade deficit, and more.

The 69th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, the missing JSDF helicopter, North Korea’s alleged first-ever test of a solid fuel ICBM, the PM and foreign ministers’ trips abroad during the Golden Week holiday, the 13th Japan-U.S.-ROK Defense Trilateral Talks, the upcoming House of Representatives by-elections, the unified local elections, new COVID-19 measures starting May 8, new BOJ Governor Ueda Kazuo’s first press conference, the Japan-ROK Export Control Policy Dialogue, the GOJ’s first development strategy for nuclear fusion, the Economy Watchers Survey, and more.

The 68th edition of the weekly newsletter aggregating news on Japanese politics. This week focuses on the foreign minister’s trip to China, the first G7 Trade Ministers’ Meeting hosted by Japan, the new “official security assistance” framework, the Japan-U.S.-ROK trilateral at the director level, the debate over counterstrike capabilities, the new Children and Families Agency, the GOJ’s plan for domestic investment, the BOJ’s March TANKAN, METI’s guidelines for corporate human rights due diligence, Kuroda’s last press conference as BOJ governor, wage and consumption statistics, and more.