Overview
- The government unveiled a ¥21.3 trillion package that includes ¥1 trillion in public–private investment to revitalize shipbuilding and promotes strategic fiscal spending.
- Takaichi is pressing a defense buildup, pledging higher outlays, seeking revisions to Japan’s National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and Defense Buildup Program, and aiming to develop long‑range cruise‑missile submarines.
- Beijing reacted to her Nov. 7 Taiwan contingency remark with warnings against travel and study in Japan and an effective halt to Japanese seafood imports, raising concerns about possible rare‑earth export curbs.
- The United States and Taiwan voiced support for Japan, with U.S. Ambassador George Glass calling China’s seafood measures a textbook case of economic coercion and Taiwan’s president highlighting Japanese ingredients in a social post.
- Some polls put her approval above 80 percent during her first month, and LDP figures have begun floating the possibility of a snap election in January.