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米国産コメ　輸入拡大案　政府検討　関税交渉カードに　農家反発恐れ　
The government has decided to deliberate on presenting to the US government the plan of importing the rice produced in the US as the means to increase the import from the country in terms of the tariff negotiations with the US. But there is a concern that farmers in Japan would be against the plan, so the government should make a delicate adjustment in the process.

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米相互関税　全面発動　第二弾、日本は２４％に　対中計１０４％　　中国対抗８４％へ

The US government led by Donald Trump put into practice its second version of the mutual tariffs at 00:01 on April 9th, or 13:01 on Japan standard time. The rate of its duties toward Japan is 24% in total. That for China is 84%, making the total duties for the country 104% with the already practiced 20% included. Given such conditions, China announced on April 9th that it will raise its revenge duties to the US goods from 34% to 84%. The worries that global economy would be seriously affected by these trade frictions have been intensified much more.

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米国　相互関税の第一弾を発動　一律１０％で　全ての国・地域へ適用　　景気悪化の恐れあり

The US government led by Donald Trump began putting it in practice to impose the across-the -board 10 % tariff on almost all the imports to the USA as the first part of the policy of the mutual customs duty, starting at 00:01 on April 5th, at 01:01 in the afternoon in Japan's standard time. This is applied to almost all the countries and the areas except Mexico and Canada to which the 25% tariffs were already applied. China has already announced its counter measures against the US movement, so there have been a lot of worries that the economy would be gradually getting worse globally.

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中国無人機の飛行が７倍に　２１年度比　南西諸島周辺で　３０機　　中国軍　台湾年頭か　活動範囲を拡大している

It is learned that the number of Chinese pilotless airplanes which flied around the Nansei Islands last fiscal year in fiscal 2024 and to which the Japan's ministry of defense scrambled the Air Self-defense Force's fighter planes has come to be 30, 7 times that in fiscal 2021. The air space where those Chinese planes flied has been rapidly expanded to the place which is north-east of the Okinawa Main Island. It is believed that the Chinese Military Force is likely to have improved its pilotless airplanes' abilities with its invasion of Taiwan in mind. Given such conditions, the Self-Defense Forces are paying keen attention to their movement now.

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ミャンマー地震　死者１０００人超　インフラ被害　救援難航　日本人２人負傷　タイ１０人死亡
Regarding the earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 which took place in the central part of Myanmar on February 28, the country's military force announced on February 29 that the death number had reached 1,002 in the country. According to the information from the Japanese Embassy in Myanmar, two Japanese people were injured. In the neighboring country Thailand, 10 people have been identified to be dead so far in Bangkok where there was a collapse of a building under construction. As lots of the infrastructures are damaged, there seems to be difficulty doing rescue activities.

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損保会社の３・４位が　合併へ　　三井住友　と　あいおい　２７年４月をめどに　それで国内トップになる
A major Japanese nonlife insurance group MS&AD Holdings announced on February 28 that Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, both of which are under its wing, will get into the talks for getting merged in April 2027. It is aimed at improving their business management efficiency in the background that domestic market has been declining because of depopulation. If this deal is realized, the new-born insurance company would be Japan's biggest one in the nonlife insurance field.

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東大病院では　移植医を増強する　来年度に　８人を採用して　人材育成する　手術室や集中治療室を整備の予定

There are many cases in Japan at present where an organ transplantation is declined in a medical facility because of the lack of appropriate employees and beds. It is learned that to deal with this problem, the University of Tokyo's Hospital, which has been top in Japan in terms of the number of surgeries in the field, will hire 8 surgeons specializing in the organ transplantation in the next fiscal year. The hospital also intends to maintain or build surgery rooms or intensive care units. Those efforts are aimed at nurturing the leaders in the field and improve Japan's organ transplantation.

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手形・小切手　２６年度で　全廃　全銀協　電子交換所　終了へ　明治以来の制度に幕
It is learned that checks or drafts which have been widely used as the way of settlements between corporations would be abolished by the end of fiscal 2026. This is because Japanese Bankers Association decided to end "the electronic exchange system", which has been working for checks or drafts in April,2027. That means the system created in the Meiji era would be put to an end.

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閣議決定される　掛け金送金の摘発強化　ネットカジノ　サイト誘導者も

The government decided the basic policy for prevention against addiction to gambling and others on the cabinet meeting on March 21. The way how to deal with illegal participations in online casinos has been included in such a government policy for the first time. The measure intends to crack down on illegal practices among the people by strengthening the watching over settlement agents which intermediate between the users and bookmakers in sending the bet money.

　

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首相批判が　地方から続出　商品券配布問題で　自民県連は　危機感をつのらせる

Criticism against the Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been intensifying especially from the local LDP supporters. Regarding the issue of his giving the vouchers of commodities worth about a 100 thousand yen to the 15 newly elected LDP lawmakers at the dinner party in the Prime Minister Residence, Ishiba said in Nagano on February 15 " I don't think I have got the people's understanding about this issue. And he expressed his intension he would continue to make efforts to get their understanding. But there has been a lot of criticism from the LDP's local chambers. And also the opposition parties are strengthening their stance to pursue his responsibility. Given such conditions, there is no prospect the problem would be settled down.

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商品券配布で　野党から石破首相の辞任要求　与党からも批判が強まる
Regarding the issue of the Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba giving the vouchers of commodities worth 100 thousand yen to the 15 LDP lawmakers who have got the post of the Diet member for the first time at the dinner party in the Prime Minister's Official Residence the other day, he denied its illegality but apologized at the budgetary committee of the House of the Councilors on February 14. The opposition parties are pursuing the responsibility of him, and the Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki demanded he should resign the post. There is a lot of criticism coming even the ruling party LDP because of the fear for the bad influence on the House of Councilors elections in this summer. Given such circumstances, he is being driven into a corner.

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ネットカジノで　半数が借金　経験者は３３７万人　依存症の恐れ　と警察庁が推計　賭け金総額は　年１．２兆円　

The Police Agency released its survey data on the illegal online casino for the first time on February 13. According to the agency, it is estimated that the number of the people who have experienced illegal online casinos amounts to about 3.37 million and the money bet on those casinos comes to around 1.2 trillion yen a year. It is also made clear that almost half of the people who have experienced them have debts triggered by those casinos and most of them are believed to be addicted to them seriously.

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ウクライナ　停戦受け入れ　　３０日間　米露　近く交渉　軍事支援再開

Both the US and Ukranian governments announced on February 11 that the Ukranian government agreed on the plan of a month-long suspension of the war against Russia which had been proposed by the US. And the US would resume the military support to Ukraine which had been suspended temporarily. After this deal, the US is going to propose the suspension plan to Russia in no time. The focus is how Russia would respond to it as the country had been reluctant to get into the talks of the war suspension.

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東日本大震災　１４年　遺留品４７万点　持ち主不明　自治体　保管悩む　避難なお２万７６１５人
Yesterday Match 31 was the 14th anniversary of the East Japan Great Earthquake. It caused a great damage as the number of deaths including the earthquake-related one and missing people amounting to as much as 22,228. Even now there are many who have not returned to their hometown. The number of such people is 27,615 by the data from the police. Given such circumstances, it is learned that there are a lot of personal effects left behind in debris which are believed to have belonged to dead or missing people. They have amounted to as many as around 470 thousand. And related autonomies are worried about how to deal with them.

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オウム後継　資産隠しか　　関連法人移転　７億円未報告　公安庁調査書　
It is learned that the religious group Aum Shinrikyo-succeeding organization Aleph is moving its assets to other organizations by lending money to the corporations whose representatives are from believers according to the document compiled by Public Safety Intelligence Agency. The agency estimates that these corporations' assets worth about 700 million yen have not been reported to the government. It is believed they are hiding the assets in order to avoid the seizure of assets coming from the requests by the plaintiffs pursuing the compensation for the damage in the court.