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2025-05-30 21:45:00
Regarding the provisional gasoline tax rate, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party have said that they will not be able to submit a bill to clarify the abolition of the tax in July of this year, which the Japan Restoration Party had called for, to the Diet, citing a lack of progress in the consideration of financial resources. The Japan Restoration Party has also said it will consider terminating discussions between the three parties.
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2025-05-30 21:22:00
The Osaka District Public Prosecutors' Office has decided not to indict the dentist and director of a dental clinic in Sakai City, Osaka, who were referred to prosecutors on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death two years ago after a 17-year-old male student at the time became hypoxic after receiving general anesthesia and subsequently died.
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2025-05-30 21:16:00
Regarding the tariff measures imposed by the Trump administration, Minister of State for Economic Revitalization Akazawa has been in Washington for ministerial negotiations with Treasury Secretary Bessent and others. He is expected to repeatedly call for a review of the measures and to seek common ground on which they can reach an agreement.
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Economic news
2025-05-30 20:05:00
The three major non-life insurance companies, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd., have announced disciplinary measures, such as reducing the compensation of their respective presidents, in response to the issue of an employee seconded to a shared agency leaking customer information to their own company. Together with Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, which had already decided on disciplinary measures, more than 70 people at the four major companies have been disciplined.
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2025-05-30 20:01:00
Applications have begun for a new system aimed at small and medium-sized retailers to sell stockpiled rice through discretionary contracts. The rice being sold this time is 80,000 tons of "old, old rice" from the Reiwa 3 harvest, and the focus is on how many applications there will be.
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2025-05-30 19:29:00
In response to the issue of postal workers not being asked to perform roll calls to check whether they had been drinking as required by law, the company revealed in April that there had been a total of 20 cases of employees drinking while on the job or commuting across the country.
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Political News
2025-05-30 21:45:00
Regarding the provisional gasoline tax rate, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party have said that they will not be able to submit a bill to clarify the abolition of the tax in July of this year, which the Japan Restoration Party had called for, to the Diet, citing a lack of progress in the consideration of financial resources. The Japan Restoration Party has also said it will consider terminating discussions between the three parties.
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2025-05-30 21:16:00
Regarding the tariff measures imposed by the Trump administration, Minister of State for Economic Revitalization Akazawa has been in Washington for ministerial negotiations with Treasury Secretary Bessent and others. He is expected to repeatedly call for a review of the measures and to seek common ground on which they can reach an agreement.
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2025-05-30 20:20:00
(Prime Minister Ishiba's Activities May 29, 2025)
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Social News
2025-05-30 22:17:00
According to JR East, the Tokaido Line had suspended operations on both lines between Tokyo Station and Atami Station in Shizuoka Prefecture due to the fatal accident, but operations resumed at around 10:05 pm. The Shonan-Shinjuku Line, which had suspended operations on some sections due to the accident, has also resumed operations.
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2025-05-30 21:31:00
Amid a series of fires at the Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture, a fire broke out in a cable installed underground in the reactor building on the morning of the 30th. The fire was soon extinguished and there was no impact on the outside.
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2025-05-30 21:22:00
The Osaka District Public Prosecutors' Office has decided not to indict the dentist and director of a dental clinic in Sakai City, Osaka, who were referred to prosecutors on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death two years ago after a 17-year-old male student at the time became hypoxic after receiving general anesthesia and subsequently died.
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