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Japan PM Takaichi Urges Tougher Immigration Checks Ahead of Vote
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to enhance prosperity and security by tightening immigration checks and ensuring foreign residents meet tax and health insurance obligations.
- Takaichi, 64, vowed to strengthen immigration screening to prevent terrorists and industrial spies from entering Japan while ensuring foreigners pay taxes and insurance premiums.
- Surveys suggest Takaichi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will easily win a majority, potentially even a two-thirds super majority with coalition partner Japan Innovation Party .
- Takaichi's tough stance on Taiwan and her $135 billion stimulus package have worried investors, with long-term Japanese bond yields hitting record highs after she pledged to temporarily exempt food from consumption tax.
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On February 7, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae pledged to make Japan "more prosperous and safer," including through stricter immigration controls, in his final messages to voters ahead of the snap election.
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