The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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LDP Tariff Task Force Broadly OKs First Proposal
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) US tariff task force on April 21 broadly agreed on the draft of its first proposal calling for government responses, with the final touches to be added by the party’s policy chief Itsunori Onodera,…
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