Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishCompanies operating in China dropped by 2,916 to 10,118 as of June 2026, a survey by Teikoku Databank shows, as Beijing's pressure over the Taiwan statement takes a business toll.
The rate on food and drink would fall from 8% to 1% for two years from next spring. Polls show voters split, and a fiscal scholar says the choice between higher taxes and thinner welfare cannot be dodged.
The chief cabinet secretary said the summit's start time was set at the last minute, leaving no time to prepare equipment for the prime minister.
The prime minister told parliament she had no advance notice of the October 2 online meeting. Reports that the French side gave hours of warning, and that the line takes 15 minutes to set up, undercut that explanation.
The party's swift decision to discipline a former prime minister signals that Takaichi intends to enforce party discipline without debate.
The consumption tax on food falls to 1% for two years from April 2027, but the minority government must now win over opposition parties in the upper house.
The party's executive board issued a formal warning to Ishiba and three others who walked out before the vote, rejecting the precedent that former party presidents get lenient treatment.
The prime minister skipped an online meeting of G7 leaders in early October. Her government blames a last-minute schedule change; lawmakers from both sides are not convinced.
A commentator says the episode shows Japanese firms absorbing real business damage from a political information campaign they have no part in.
Approval slipped to 41% in July before recovering to 45%. A year in, the coalition's footing looks different from the one it started on.
The new Disaster Management Agency is meant to end the bureaucratic silos that have slowed Japan's response to earthquakes, floods and heat. Its main tool for doing so is a recommendation power no agency has ever used.
The emperor's daughter travels alone to Singapore from Nov. 17 to 21 for the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties, while the succession debate that would decide her place stays parked.
The cabinet has held near 50% support a year after taking office. The conservative-leaning opposition supporters who once backed it have been drifting away since January.
The government will consider monitoring traffic between parties inside Japan, which the current law leaves untouched, after the prime minister ordered a review of the active cyberdefense law.
The bill to cut the consumption tax on food and drink and create an income-linked benefit passed the lower house with every opposition party opposed. After more than 30 hours of debate, the government has still not said how it will pay for the cut.
The prime minister's vow to keep cooperating with the US president drew online criticism and a call from former lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa for her to resign, after Democrats won both chambers.
Seven days after the first anniversary of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Taiwan remarks, China's export controls on rare earths are still squeezing manufacturers — and a METI request to business groups has left executives unsure what Tokyo wants.
A month after the prime minister missed a G7 leaders' online meeting, a government source describes a chain of staff who avoided asking her — while her account of why has changed each time she has been questioned in the Diet.
A year after Sanae Takaichi said a Taiwan contingency could trigger collective self-defense, a former foreign minister carried a compromise to Beijing and was told the leaders must fix it.
A cabinet meeting on Nov 6 approved a package to tighten corporate basics and strengthen "proactive cyber defense," after a run of breaches blamed on weak systems and misconfigured websites.
The prime minister told LDP lawmaker Muneo Suzuki that Tokyo is pursuing the case through diplomatic channels, after a Hokkaido Shimbun journalist was detained by Russian authorities.
The government approved a package of emergency cybersecurity measures on Friday, including a unit of specialists to help hacked organizations and a push to define the legal footing for active cyber defense.
The finance minister dropped into a Christmas illumination event and reported the lower house passage of the consumption tax cut bill.
The former Osaka mayor praised Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama for pushing through a bill that would cut the tax on food and drink to 1% for two years from April 2027.
The former justice minister criticized fellow Liberal Democrats who left the chamber before a vote on the tax-cut bill, which passed the lower house.
The government will scale back subsidies that have held regular gasoline near ¥170 a liter, with the timing set to land before the consumption tax cut takes effect in April.
The former prime minister said the bill would damage Japan's finances, as the lower house passed the tax cut anyway.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says the cut in the food consumption tax will show up in prices. Supermarket and convenience store bosses say rising costs may leave them no room to pass it on.
A party-affiliated reporter says a Global Times editorial went too far in tying the launch of Japan's new intelligence agency to Unit 731, a sign that the pressure to draw traffic is shaping the coverage.
China keeps pressing Tokyo to retract the prime minister's answer on Taiwan, while telling Japanese business it remains a valued economic partner.
A PHP flaw drew a plea from the prime minister, and an FX trader watched an automated account drain in seconds. The common thread is speed.
A husband-and-wife manzai duo explain maritime security, satellites and AI in a taxpayer-funded campaign that online commenters have met with near-uniform scorn.
A draft to be issued at a leaders' meeting on the 9th commits Japan to helping Vietnam build nuclear plants and to early work on LNG-fired generation.
