Rightwing Takaichi the victor in Japan’s LDP leadership race
In her third attempt, Sanae Takaichi won the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership in convincing and comfortable fashion in a runoff against Shinjiro Koizumi, winning 185 votes to Koizumi’s 156. One lawmaker apparently abstained. She won by a larger marg…
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A Japanese debt crisis is closer than you think
TOKYO — As Kazuo Ueda mulls whether to hike interest rates this week, a powerful constituency is staring back at the Bank of Japan governor: the …
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Japan’s railgun takes the sting out of China’s hypersonics
Japan has fired the first ship-mounted railgun at sea, a hypersonic shot that could rewrite the balance between guns and missiles in naval warfa…
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As Japan’s Ishiba steps down, the bond vigilantes step up
It’s now Japan’s turn for a burst of political instability as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1364916/as-japans-ishiba-steps-down-the-bond-vigilantes-step-up/
Scott Bessent’s got a Japanese blind spot
TOKYO – Fresh off getting outmaneuvered by Tokyo on a “trade deal,” President Donald Trump’s team is going even further to demonstrate its ignorance of the state of play in Japan. Case in point: US Treasury Sec…
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TOKYO – As Donald Trump makes recessions great again and the dollar a has-been, Japan’s yen is developing a safe-haven halo faster than Tokyo’s policymakers would like.The extent to which the US president’s trade war is slamming confidence in dollar assets can be seen in the Japanese currency’s roughly 10% rally so far this year, trading today at around 144. The yen’s rally has also forced the Bank of Japan to abandon long-held plans to raise rates again today (May 1).BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda’s experience with the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 presidency has been as chaotic as
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