Diet in review: Suga defensive on virus response but insistent on Olympics
Japan's prime minister took heat from one opposition lawmaker after another during three days of question-and-answer sessions.
Opposition party pushing divided LDP over separate surnames in Japan
A recent survey of people under 60 has shown more than 70% of respondents were supportive of having the option of separate surnames.
Generational change and policy differences test LDP-Komeito political bonds
The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito recently marked 21 years of alliance, having ruled Japan as a coalition for 18 of those years. But are they growing apart?
Suga under fire for year-end dinners as coronavirus cases mount
Suga's outings came after the government abruptly halted a government travel subsidy program he had long defended.
Japan ruling bloc OKs tax reforms to help coronavirus-hit economy
The LDP and Komeito are also aiming to encourage the private sector to work toward carbon reduction and digitalization through revisions to corporate taxation.
Japan government nixes deadline for decision on strike capability
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had said shortly before leaving office in September that the government would "set an appropriate path" on the issue by the end of the year.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the LDP president who took office in September, took the 28th spot with ¥112.26 million.
Japan likely to raise older people's medical payments from October 2022
If the income threshold is set at ¥1.7 million as proposed by the government, 5.2 million people would face a medical payment increase.
Company donations to ruling party down for first time since 2012
Political donations to the biggest ruling party by companies and industry groups fell last year on a year-on-year basis for the first time since its return to power in 2012, government data showed Friday. But the data released by the internal affairs ministry showed that ...
Ruling and opposition camps still split on referendum law reform
The day's session marked the first substantive debate on the matter at the commission since Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga took office in September.
Komeito deputy chief to run for Kawai's Hiroshima seat, riling LDP
Tetsuo Saito, now in his ninth term as a Lower House member, says he wants to secure the seat for the ruling coalition.
Osaka Ishin and Nippon Ishin must adapt or risk extinction
Despite polls showing Osaka Ishin remains popular that the anti-merger faction won by only 17,000 votes of over 1.37 million cast, the party and its movement are in deep trouble.
