Senior LDP figures hint at Lower House breakup and election within 2020
Some speculate that such comments are intended to keep LDP members united, at a time when the administration faces strong headwinds over a spate of problems.
Japan's ruling bloc to push back controversial prosecutor bills
The government intends to prioritize the passage of a second supplementary budget, which includes measures to handle the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic.
Odd couple: LDP-Komeito political marriage faces testing times
Power struggles in Abe's party could further strain the two-decades-old coalition in the weeks to come
CDP calls for government to keep ¥300,000 payout for struggling households
A senior opposition party official urged the government on Sunday to maintain a ¥300,000 cash handout program that had been under discussion for households suffering sharp drops in income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While praising to the government's new ¥100,000 handout program for all ...
Komeito cash handout demand highlights Abe's fading power amid outbreak
The turnabout marked an extraordinary moment in the over seven-year-long reign of Abe, providing a glimpse of the ruling coalition's mounting exasperation with his administration.
Senior Japanese ruling party and opposition officials agreed Tuesday to reduce lawmakers' salaries by 20 percent for a year as part of efforts to overcome the novel coronavirus crisis. The accord was reached at a meeting between Hiroshi Moriyama, Diet affairs chief of the governing ...
Komeito eyes special legislation to postpone local elections
Komeito, the coalition partner of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, is considering a bill to allow local elections to be postponed in Tokyo and six prefectures under a state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, it was learned Thursday. At a news conference ...
Japan mulls ¥30 trillion in economic stimulus to counter coronavirus impact
Spending by the government is likely to surpass the ¥15 trillion it earmarked during the 2008 global financial crisis.
Japanese government weighs cash handouts to households to ease coronavirus impact
The government and the ruling coalition are considering providing cash to households in an effort to boost personal spending amid the coronavirus outbreak, sources have said. Officials and lawmakers are studying the possibility of extending more than ¥12,000 ($112) per person, a level the government ...
Japan's record fiscal 2020 budget clears Lower House
The ¥102.66 trillion fiscal 2020 budget denies extra funding for COVID-19 but addresses soaring welfare costs and promotes free education and cashless purchases to offset last year’s tax hike.
As Japan's top opposition parties weigh merger, once-powerful SDP faces tough road ahead
The small opposition Social Democratic Party, once the key rival of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is struggling to hold on to its status as a force to be reckoned with in Japanese politics. Since early December, the SDP had been discussing an integration proposal ...
Komeito, the 20-year-old security watchdog
Komeito wields influence in major security policy decisions, especially the one that has most Japan-watchers intrigued: constitutional amendment.
