​​Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi gave a speech outlining her policies on Feb. 20 to open a special session of the Diet that will last through July 17, according to a readout from the prime minister's office. In it, she pledged to develop a separate multi-year budget for industrial policy, to ease the cost of living with a food tax cut, gasoline and diesel tax cuts, and a raised income tax threshold, to revise three key defense documents in 2026, to bolster nuclear power and to consider finding a way to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.