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Japan should avoid rushing into raising capital gains tax as doing so could send a wrong message to markets when Japan is encouraging financial investment, a senior government official said on Sunday.

Condolence letters have poured in from Russia’s president, the top U.S. envoy to China, and the Singaporean and Japanese prime ministers

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has instructed the defense and finance ministers to boost Japan's defense and security-related spending in fiscal 2027 to 2% of the current gross domestic product.

Japan's second supplementary stimulus budget for this fiscal year, amounting to 29 trillion yen ($210 billion), cleared the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for final approval in the upper chamber this week.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's public support slipped to a new low in a poll published on Sunday, as a series of cabinet resignations has compounded anger over the ruling party's ties to a controversial religious group.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will likely visit Washington in early January for the first time since taking office and meet with U.S. President Joe Biden, it has been learned.

Former British PM Liz Truss's disastrous mini-budget, which crashed the pound and ended her tenure after just 44 days, has quickly become a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world as they debate how to spur economic growth and address rising inflation. But some national leaders, such as Japan's, have…

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida admitted Thursday morning to having submitted receipts that were missing required information when they were attached to a report on income received and expenditures incurred in his campaign for last year's House of Representatives election.

BEIJING -- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to relax China's quarantine measures against the coronavirus when the leaders met in Bangkok on Nov. 17, according to diplomatic sources.