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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 21:16:00
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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2025-05-30 20:19:00
Regarding China's suspension of imports of Japanese seafood following the release of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi announced that the Japanese and Chinese governments have agreed on the conditions necessary for resumption of imports and that the procedures will begin. However, the import suspension, which has been in place since the nuclear accident and targets food from 10 prefectures including Fukushima, Miyagi, and Tokyo, including seafood, will continue, and the government plans to continue to urge China to lift the suspension.
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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 19:21:00
Regarding the US tariff measures, Minister of State for Economic Revitalization Akazawa will soon hold ministerial negotiations with Treasury Secretary Bessent and others in Washington. He will repeatedly call for a review of the series of measures and hopes to find common ground where they can reach an agreement.
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2025-05-30 19:05:00
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 18:59:00
Following Hyogo Prefecture's third-party committee's determination that the former director of the General Affairs Department leaked private information of the former bureau director who prepared the document accusing Governor Saito, and pointing out that it was highly likely that this was done at the instruction of the governor and others, it has been learned that the secretaries-general of three factions in the prefectural assembly will meet to consider how to respond, including requesting that the prefecture file criminal charges against the former director-general in order to clarify the facts.
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2025-05-30 18:48:00
Regarding his remarks about stockpiled rice, in which he said, "After a year, it will become animal food," leader of the Democratic Party for the People, Yuichiro Tamaki, said he was referring to the current system and indicated his intention to carefully explain the intention behind his remarks.
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2025-05-30 18:41:00
Regarding China's suspension of imports of Japanese seafood following the release of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi announced that the Japanese and Chinese governments have agreed on the conditions necessary for resumption of imports and that the procedures will begin. However, the import suspension, which has been in place since the nuclear accident and targets food from 10 prefectures including Fukushima, Miyagi, and Tokyo, including seafood, will continue, and the government plans to continue to urge China to lift the suspension.
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2025-05-30 18:29:00
Kanagawa Prefecture has announced that due to an error in its application procedures for national subsidies, more than 130 million yen in subsidies for last year, which were to be used for projects such as road construction, were not paid out.
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2025-05-30 18:16:00
In order to advance measures against online casinos, a bill to amend the Basic Law for Countermeasures against Gambling Addiction, which includes measures such as a ban on the establishment of casino sites, has been submitted to the House of Representatives and is expected to be passed. The bill is expected to be enacted during the current Diet session.
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