Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told the 20-year-old daughter of an opposition party leader to run for the LDP during a meeting Friday to celebrate her win in a beauty pageant. Mika Matsuno, a sophomore at Keio University’s Faculty of Letters, visited Abe at ...
Calls for tougher sanctions against Pyongyang erupted from Japanese lawmakers on Wednesday, following North Korea’s announcement that it had successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test on the day. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party launched a special headquarters on the country’s response to the North ...
The Democratic Party of Japan and Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party) agreed Friday to create a new lawmakers’ alliance in the Diet next month, with a view to possible integration. The agreement came amid talks between DPJ leader Katsuya Okada and Ishin chief ...
Finally ending a long-running and ugly battle over political funds, Osaka-based members of Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party) and those outside of the prefecture signed a statement of reconciliation Tuesday, agreeing to split the party’s ¥1.5 billion in government subsidies and return money ...
Japan's third-largest opposition party re-elects its leader as momentum grows for a tie-up with the Democratic Party of Japan.
Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party) general council head Jiro Ono and party leader Yorihisa Matsuno filed Tuesday to run in the party’s leadership election Dec. 5. Issues facing the major opposition party include the proposed creation of a unified parliamentary group with the ...
Ishin no To may be on the verge of vanishing as rebellious members threaten procedures to legally disband the party.
Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party) on Thursday expelled Osaka-based lawmakers who demanded that its leadership split the party in two and divide its political funds accordingly. The ousted individuals comprise 12 Diet members and 153 local assembly members who are also members of ...
An ugly fight over political funds totaling as much as ¥1.33 billion breaks out as the No. 2 opposition party negotiates a bitter internal split.
Yorihisa Matsuno, head of Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party), has sacked three of the party’s four top executives, a move likely to accelerate the unfolding disintegration process of the nation’s second-largest opposition force. Among the three to get the ax Tuesday were Nobuyuki ...
Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party), the second largest opposition party, is on the brink of disintegration once again as a confrontation between its Osaka-based and Tokyo-based members intensified Wednesday. Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui, one of the two party founders and now a special ...
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto expresses interest in forming an all-Kansai political party, which could split the party into eastern and western Japan factions.
