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ELECTIONS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 23, 2023
Official campaigning for nationwide local elections begins in Japan
The election results are likely to determine whether Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will decide to dissolve the Lower House for a snap general election.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2023
Japan to spend $15 billion on inflation aid ahead of local polls
The measures include handouts for low-income households and their children, and support for households that use liquefied petroleum gas, according to documents from the Cabinet Office.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 6, 2023
Japan tackles shortage of regional assembly candidates
In 375 town and village assembly elections held as part of unified local polls in 2019, 93 saw no competitive races, with the share of uncontested seats hitting a record high of 23.3%.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 2, 2023
The paradox that is Fumio Kishida’s leadership
Lucky for Prime Minister Kishida, the Japanese public does not see a viable alternative to the LDP for running the government.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 26, 2023
Kishida rallies LDP members ahead of April local elections
The prime minister said his ruling party will focus on issues surrounding wage hikes, constitutional revision and imperial succession.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2023
Anti-harassment website set up to help women running for office in Japan
A group of volunteers has created the website to offer free consultations on how to deal with harassment for female candidates in April’s local elections.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 22, 2023
Redrawing of electoral map puts focus on late Abe's home turf
Yamaguchi's four single-seat constituencies in the Lower House have been reduced to three as a result of the redrawing of boundaries under a revised law put into effect last month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2023
Police prepare for spring elections six months after Abe was killed on the campaign trail
The National Police Agency has conducted a drastic review of its protection for dignitaries and introduced a plan to check the protection plans of prefectural police in advance.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 1, 2023
The ‘red wave’ washout: How skewed polls fed a false U.S. election narrative
Coupled with the political factors already favoring Republicans, biased polls earlier this year helped feed an ultimately false narrative: A Republican wave was about to hit the U.S.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2022
When elections become more like sporting events
Elections are like sporting events: Many voters, like fans, seem to view victory over the other side as an end in itself
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2022
A bad month for Trump: Three takeaways from Raphael Warnock's win in Georgia
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock beat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election that fortified the Democrats' Senate majority.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 7, 2022
Democrats capture U.S. Senate seat in Georgia runoff
Raphael Warnock beat Herschel Walker with 50.8% of the vote to the former football star's 49.2%, according to the Associated Press, with 96% of votes counted.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2022
Trump is on the defensive for the first time in years
Former U.S. President Donald Trump still hasn't come up with a plausible way to explain why he isn't responsible for last week's Republican midterm defeats.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 18, 2022
House GOP primed to hit Biden with avalanche of investigations
GOP lawmakers have been setting the groundwork for wide-ranging investigations that, at least in part, will serve as payback for probes of Donald Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 15, 2022
Election denier Kari Lake loses governor's race in battleground Arizona
Lake's loss is the latest defeat for a series of candidates endorsed by Trump, who on Tuesday is expected to announce another White House bid.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2022
Midterm elections help Democrats, Biden and U.S. democracy
One of the most international implications of the results of the U.S. midterms is the credibility and legitimacy that it has restored to American democracy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2022
What does Donald Trump do now?
After his candidates fell flat in the midterm elections, does Donald Trump have a chance to win in 2024?
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 11, 2022
Ron DeSantis' big election night shakes 2024 White House field
Trump remains intensely popular with the Republican party's base. But signs of discontent with Trump within the party are growing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2022
Republicans misjudged the power of abortion rights
Republicans found out in the U.S. midterms that reproductive freedom is as much a core issue as inflation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2022
Biden celebrates beating the odds, but he faces a new challenge
The president conceded that Donald Trump's supporters retain enormous influence and will be a challenge for him.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.

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