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            <title><![CDATA[Japan's new leader: "Sleeps about two hours"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA["Work, work, work, work and work." That's what Japan's new leader Sanae Takaichi promised her party colleagues to do. The country's first female prime minister calls a meeting at three in the morning, opts out of free time and opens up for even longer working days.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:19:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sanae Takaichi Set to Become Japan's First Female Prime Minister]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Japan's new prime minister will likely be a woman for the first time. Conservative Sanae Takaichi is expected to take the country to the right and reintroduce "Abenomics".]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:11:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stockholm Stock Exchange Dips by Lunchtime]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Stockholm stock exchange starts Tuesday's trading slightly up but has backed down into the red by lunchtime. The broad OMXS index is down 0.2 percent.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:36:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nikkei Reaches Record High Amid Japanese Market Surge]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:03:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stockholm Stock Exchange Opens Week with Gains as OMXS Index Rises]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Stockholm stock exchange began the trading week with an upturn. The OMXS index closed 0.6 percent up.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:37:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Resigns After Losing Majority]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces that he is resigning. The message comes after less than a year in power where his Liberal Democratic LDP has lost its majority in both the parliament's lower house and upper house.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:47:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japanese Agriculture Minister Taku Eto Resigns After Rice Comment]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Japan's Minister of Agriculture Taku Eto resigns after a criticized statement over the weekend when he stated that he had never purchased rice.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 00:36:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Reports 'Great Progress' in Trade Talks with Japan]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[USA's President Donald Trump claims that "great progress" has been made in meetings with Japan's envoy on the tariff issue at the White House. Of course, the talks are not easy, says Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:23:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More exchange USA-Japan - but also threat of tariffs]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Even Japan is now part of the circle of trading partners that the USA's President Donald Trump is threatening with import tariffs. At the same time, the countries' leaders have agreed on increased economic exchange.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan can receive wounded from Gaza]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Japan's government is considering accepting injured Palestinians from Gaza for medical treatment, according to the country's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:20:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deadline for stopped steel deal is postponed]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japanese households receive part of billion package]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Japanese households are to receive a share of an economic stimulus package equivalent to 140 billion dollars. The initiative is being launched following the ruling party LDP's disastrous election.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:40:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ishiba remains as leader after the disastrous election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba remains as Prime Minister of Japan, despite the worst election result in 15 years. This has been established in a vote in the parliament's lower house on Monday.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:34:22 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan's leader remains in power after election setback]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba intends to remain in his post after the weekend's election, which became a major failure for the country's long-ruling party.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:04:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ruling Party in Japan Loses Majority]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:17:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Atomic Bombs Do Not Bring Peace]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Japanese Nihon Hidankyo receives this year's Nobel Peace Prize, for its struggle against nuclear weapons. The organization has been a favorite tip several times before, but says that this was something they "never could have dreamed of".]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan has a new Prime Minister - Shigeru Ishiba]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:28:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Upwards Again in Tokyo]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:25:10 GMT</pubDate>
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