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The Asahi Shimbun is one of Japan's largest national newspapers, known for investigative reporting on politics, business, and government policy.
Nagoya doubled adult admission at Nagoya Castle to 1,000 yen while holding most of its 752 public-facility fee rises to 1.5 times. The premium over that cap at Nagoya's tourist sites looks more like a charge on visitor demand than a pass-through of inflation.
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The August hike came with staff work arguing that terms-of-trade income becomes inflation once households spend it, which puts the next decision on the consumption data rather than on the export headline.
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Japan pledged the $550 billion in response to American tariff measures. Six months on it is what Takaichi brings to a summit whose agenda also includes the cost of US bases, with four of the five decided projects in oil and power.
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The levy collected inside every airfare out of Japan is now funding bear capture and beetle control. For anyone budgeting against it, that is a reliability problem.
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METI is winding up the Cool Japan Fund with about $350 million in cumulative losses. A ministry official's own account: the private sector had already taken the profitable deals.
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