Japan Diet Begins Discussions on Consumption Tax Cut for Food

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (second from left) attends a cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Yuichiro Tamaki (third from right), leader of the Democratic Party for the People, and other party officials submit to the House of Representatives a bill serving as a counterproposal to the government's legislation on a consumption tax cut, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Tuesday.