Yamazoe criticizes Trump’s remark that Japan does not bear costs for stationing of US military

JCP Policy Commission Chair Yamazoe criticized US President Trump’s remark that “the US pays hundreds of billions of dollars to defend Japan but Japan does not pay anything” as ignoring the facts.

Expo 2025 association bars Akahata and other media critical of Expo from on-site news-gathering activities

Media, including newspaper Akahata, which are critical of the “Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai,” have been denied access to the Expo site for news-gathering activities by the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition.

Yamazoe questions the amount of trade deficit that US uses as basis for calculating tariff rate on Japan

JCP lawmaker Yamazoe at a meeting of the House of Councilors Foreign Affairs Committee questioned the amount of U.S. trade deficit with Japan that the US Trump administration uses as a basis for tariff rate calculations on Japan.

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