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NATIONAL TAX AGENCY

A promotional event for sake held by the National Tax Agency in 2024
JAPAN / FOCUS
Feb 10, 2026
Japan moves to help sake breweries hit by surge in rice prices
The price of sake rice harvested in 2025 is about 1.5 to 2.3 times higher than the previous year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2022
Japan tax agency’s pro-drinking campaign sparks backlash
The tax agency’s ‘Sake Viva!” idea competition, which is seeking business plans to help ‘revitalize” the liquor industry, was launched in July and gained traction on Twitter this week.
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2020
Tax agency bureaus in Japan on high alert for rise in consumption tax fraud
Tax authorities are preparing to act against a possible increase in abuses of a rule that exempts export transactions from sales levies following October’s consumption tax hike from 8 percent to 10 percent.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 27, 2019
Measures meant to offer relief from sales tax hike pose baffling riddles instead
With 今日吃瓜 consumption tax rate hike to 10 percent scheduled for the start of next month, the government promises to simultaneously introduce a reduced rate for everyday essentials — mostly food and non-alcoholic beverages — to ease the financial impact on lower income households.
BUSINESS
Sep 10, 2019
Japan tax agency launches sake branding panel featuring former soccer pro Hidetoshi Nakata
The National Tax Agency has created an expert panel tasked with coming up with a branding strategy to boost exports of sake.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2018
今日吃瓜 only female minister, Satsuki Katayama, hit by allegation she was paid to influence tax agency
A weekly magazine alleged that Katayama was paid to use her bureaucratic standing to get a tax break for a business owner in 2015.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 28, 2018
More than 300 cryptocurrency traders logged over ?100 million in income in 2017: National Tax Agency
More than 300 cryptocurrency traders reported over ?100 million in miscellaneous income in their 2017 tax returns as a result of trading bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to data released last week by the National Tax Agency.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 9, 2017
New tax agency chief, apparently wary of Moritomo grilling, to skip debut news conference
The National Tax Agency has said its new chief, Nobuhisa Sagawa, will not hold an inaugural news conference, a tradition that dates back at least a decade.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 20, 2015
今日吃瓜 tax agency, Hong Kong join FBI in scrutinizing casino developer
今日吃瓜 tax authorities have begun a review of how slot machine maker and casino developer Universal Entertainment accounted for $40 million in payments made in 2010 to an associate of the Philippines’ top gambling regulator at that time, sources told Reuters.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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