{
  "id": 648820,
  "title": "Japan's Former Health Minister Sakaguchi Dies at 92",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/japans-former-health-minister-sakaguchi-dies-at-92",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T07:48:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026081200534/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)--Chikara Sakaguchi, who served as the country's first health, labor and welfare minister, died of natural causes on Friday. He was 92. Sakaguchi, a former Komeito lawmaker, died at a hospital in the western Japan city of Takamatsu, the party said Wednesday. The former doctor from Mie Prefecture in central Japan was first elected to the House of Representatives...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}