Takaichi vs. the tax ‘rebels’

Japan’s House of Representatives approved the consumption tax cut on Friday, November 6, but the government’s accomplishment was overshadowed by the decision by four senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers — most notably former prime minister Shigeru Ishiba — to absent themselves from the vote. The bill now heads to the upper house, where the opposition
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