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TOKYO--Japan’s Miki House, a maker of luxury baby and children’s goods in a country with ever-fewer births, is looking overseas for both production and customers for products like its 100,000 ...

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Japan's House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a revised 115.2 trillion yen ($773 billion) draft budget for fiscal 2025 after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's minority government made concessions ...

Japan’s lower house passed the budget for the year starting in April, checking off a key item on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s to-do-list for shoring up his leadership ahead of a national ...

Japan's Lower House has passed a budget bill for next fiscal year starting in April. Earlier on Tuesday, the chamber's budget committee approved the draft budget. The committee also passed a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (left, front) shakes hands with House of Representatives Budget Committee chairman Jun Azumi (right, front, back to camera) in Tokyo on March 4, 2025, after ...