The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan's ruling LDP proposes food consumption tax cut to 1% from April 2027TOKYO - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday proposed reducing the consumption tax rate on food and beverages from the current 8 percent to 1 percent starting April 2027, rather than cutting it to zero as pledged in the latest general election campaign.The proposal was made by LDP tax policy chief Itsunori Onodera at a meeting of the cross-party national council on taxation and social security and will be included in an…READ FULL ARTICLE