🇯🇵Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he will step down, following weeks of calls for his departure in the aftermath of a second national election setback bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🇯🇵Japan’s ruling party faces a tough decision over its future as it searches for a new leader to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, stop the slide in its support at the polls and reassure investors bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Bank of Japan should raise its benchmark rate to support the yen and curb inflation, Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker and former digital transformation minister Kono Taro said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🇺🇸🇯🇵The US and Japan confirmed that their finance chiefs will continue discussions on currency issues, after reaffirming their basic commitment to let markets determine currency rates in a joint statement bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🔥Japan’s finance minister pushed back against a US call to ramp up pressure on Putin to end the war in Ukraine by imposing higher tariffs on China and India for importing Russian oil bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

💴The Bank of Japan left its benchmark interest rate unchanged as it sought more clarity over lingering economic and political uncertainty after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s resignation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Randomly found a chamber labeled as "oxygen box" at the National Doet of Japan.

「ゲルたんのすなばのミルクコーヒーまんじゅう」が大変美味とのことで追加発注が入り、今数量限定で売り出しているそうです。 私は去年に続き、The Manjuを買いました。ちょうど今週政治経済部３周年を迎えましたが、壁画コレクションの方も順調にそろってまいりました。