Japanese opposition party Osaka Ishin no Kai decided Tuesday to change its name by removing “Osaka,” as the party tries to gain wider support from across the country. The party, which has its base in Osaka Prefecture, made the decision at a meeting of ...
Yoshimi Watanabe, who led the now-defunct Your Party, staged a political comeback Sunday after winning a House of Councilors seat 1½ years after he was voted out of the Lower House. “The story of my ‘revenge’ starts today. I would like to restart from ...
A year after Osaka city voters rejected Osaka Ishin no Kai’s most fundamental policy proposal in a referendum, the party finds itself heading south. Ever since the referendum, the party has failed to gain traction outside the prefecture, unable to fill the void left ...
Prosecutors interrogate the leader of now-defunct Your Party over unreported withdrawals he made from the bank account of his political support group.
Prosecutors searched former Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe’s office and other related locations in September in connection with a funding scandal that forced him to quit as head of the now-defunct opposition party, sources said. The prosecutors, who searched the office in Utsunomiya, Tochigi ...
Members of an Osaka civic group file a criminal complaint against former Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe over ¥500 million in dubious loans that made him step down.
The fact that a question even exists on whether Your Party former chief Yoshimi Watanabe broke the law when he personally borrowed ¥800 million from a cosmetics company chairman ahead of elections points to the inadequacy of current laws on political funding transparency.
Your Party said Thursday that about ¥90 million in questionable loans from a businessman to Yoshimi Watanabe, the former head of the opposition party, remain unaccounted for. In an investigative report on the loan scandal, the party said some ¥500 million was transferred to ...
Your Party formally appoints Secretary-General Keiichiro Asao as its new president to replace founder Yoshimi Watanabe, who exited amid an ¥800 million loan scandal.
A veteran lawmaker of Your Party said Wednesday he will run in the upcoming party leadership election after its chief resigned over a money scandal. “We must protect the party,” Keiichiro Asao, the party’s secretary-general, said at a press conference announcing his candidacy in ...
The embattled Your Party is set to name a new leader as early as Friday to replace Yoshimi Watanabe, who Monday expressed his intention to resign as party chief amid a money scandal. The party’s policy research chief, Kenichi Mizuno, said Tuesday that an ...
Following the resignation Monday of Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe amid a scandal involving ¥800 million in loans from major cosmetics company DHC Corp., its chairman, Yoshiaki Yoshida, issued a statement later the same day. “We can say that (Yoshimi Watanabe) has acted in ...
