Ahead of the Upper House election on Sunday, party leaders and executives were asked the main issues they want to raise with voters, including the economy, the pension system and constitutional revision. LDP Despite growing concerns triggered about the pension system by a recent government report, ...
Campaign kicks off for Japan Upper House poll, a litmus test for constitutional reform and tax hike
The focus will be on whether the LDP and other forces in favor of constitutional amendment will be able to retain their current two-thirds supermajority.
Abe Cabinet survives no-confidence motion in Lower House over handling of pension report
Opposition parties launched a last-ditch offensive before the Diet session ends, taking aim at what they say is a failure to address concerns about the nation’s pension system.
Opposition to submit no-confidence motion against Abe Cabinet
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano has decided, jointly with other opposition parties, on the party's plan to submit a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet during the ongoing Diet session, informed sources said Saturday. The envisaged motion is aimed at ...
China's hard line in Hong Kong boosts Beijing critics in Taiwan
China's heavy-handed tactics in Hong Kong could be also hurting its cause in Taiwan. In recent weeks, Taiwan's China-skeptic president, Tsai Ing-wen, has come out strongly against Hong Kong's proposal to allow extraditions with the mainland. The criticism has not only won Tsai praise from ...
Japan's CDP, DPP and JCP won't face each other in one-seat districts in bid to topple Abe's LDP
The main opposition parties have decided to field single candidates in most one-seat districts in this summer's Upper House election to more effectively face off with ruling party candidates, their members said Wednesday. Under the agreement involving the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Democratic ...
Lawmaker Takeshi Shina to quit DPP after it merged with Liberal Party
A lawmaker from the opposition Democratic Party for the People said Saturday that he will leave his party following its merger with the Liberal Party, another opposition party, last month. Takeshi Shina, a member of the House of Representatives from Iwate Prefecture, made the announcement ...
Democratic Party for the People, Japan's second-largest opposition force, absorbs Ozawa's Liberals
The splinter of the defunct Democratic Party is attempting to bolster its strength ahead of the Upper House election and said it will “call on others to join.”
With opposition fractured, LDP bags over half of prefectural seats in first leg of polls
The results show that support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party remains firm ahead of the Upper House election set for this summer.
Abe's remark that DPJ rule was 'like a nightmare' sparks opposition fury as Japan elections loom
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and opposition heavyweight Katsuya Okada argued emotionally in the Diet on Tuesday over Abe's recent remark that Japan was going through a "nightmare" before his Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in 2012. At a meeting of the House of Representatives ...
Ichiro Ozawa may be on verge of comeback as Japan's DPP and Liberal parties form joint Diet group
One of Japan's most influential and divisive political figures in recent decades may be staging another comeback. On Thursday, Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa and Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the Democratic Party for the People, met at the Diet, where they agreed to form a ...
There's no appetite on Taiwan for a real challenge to China and Japan must adjust its strategic calculations accordingly.
