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LOWER HOUSE ELECTION

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 10, 2017
Political risk seeps into yen trade as Japan's Abe faces popular upstart in October election
It's been five years since politics captured much attention from the foreign-exchange world in Japan, but traders are now gaming out potential scenarios for the yen after the Oct. 22 general election.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2017
Japan's voters identify election-defining issues as campaigning starts
Voters, including teens who will cast ballots for the first time, expressed their hopes and concerns as official campaigning for the Oct. 22 Lower House election got under way on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2017
Koike's policies on foreign affairs and security receiving more scrutiny ahead of election
With Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike's newly established Kibo no To (Party of Hope) expected to become a major force in the House of Representatives after the Oct. 22 general election, her prospective foreign and security policies have begun to attract attention.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2017
At debate, Abe pins election hopes on tough stance against North Korea
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe justifies his decision to call a snap election as a chance to seek a mandate from the public about his North Korea policy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2017
Abe hopes to corral parties' support for revising pacifist Constitution
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his Liberal Democratic Party will seek to cooperate broadly with other parties in proposing the first-ever revision to the 70-year-old Constitution.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2017
CDP challenges ruling bloc with pledge to halt tax hike and vow to end nuclear power reliance
The newly created Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has released its campaign pledges for the Oct. 22 Lower House election, coming out against a planned consumption tax hike and vowing to end the country's reliance on nuclear power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 5, 2017
Kibo no To puts tax hike insanity in the spotlight
Win or lose on Oct. 22, the energized opposition force coalescing around Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike is already changing the political conversation for the better in three specific ways.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 3, 2017
Koike denials of a Lower House run likely to take wind out of Kibo no To's election sails
Speculation that Koike may run for a Lower House seat fast loses steam as the governor dismisses the prospect she would make a bid to return to the Diet.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 2, 2017
Former DP heavyweight Yukio Edano seeks to fill void with new liberal-minded party
Edano says his new liberal-minded party will maximize the chances of dethroning Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 1, 2017
Leading Kibo no To member says Koike-led party unlikely to take power after Lower House election
Masaru Wakasa, a founding member of Kibo no To (Party of Hope) says Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike's new national party is unlikely to win enough seats in the Oct. 22 general election to seize power.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 30, 2017
Yuriko Koike's energized challenge exposes risk of Abe's snap poll decision
A fast-growing challenge by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc has highlighted the risk of his gamble on a snap poll.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 29, 2017
Yuriko Koike to vet DP refugees on key policies before laying out welcome mat
Members of the moribund Democratic Party will be vetted carefully before being allowed to join her upstart Kibo no To (Party of Hope), conservative Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike says.
EDITORIALS
Sep 29, 2017
Opposition realigns ahead of election
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has triggered a surprise realignment in the opposition camp that could pose a potent threat to the survival of his administration.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 29, 2017
Foreign investors bet big on Japan stocks right before Abe's snap election call
In the two weeks before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election, foreign investors using the futures market — which are often hedge funds — suddenly turned hugely positive on Japanese shares.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 29, 2017
1,021 to run in Japan's Lower House election on Oct. 22: poll
A total of 1,021 people were planning to run in the Oct. 22 general election as of Thursday, according to a Jiji Press survey taken after the dissolution of the House of Representatives the same day.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 28, 2017
Could Japan be ready for 'Koikenomics?'
In calling the latest of what's been a five-year flurry of election after election, Shinzo Abe admitted what households have long known: Abenomics is a dud.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 28, 2017
Democratic Party may field no candidates in snap poll as ranks look to run as part of Yuriko Koike's new force
The leader of Japan's main opposition force, the Democratic Party, will propose that the party stand no candidates in next month's Lower House election, and let its members run under the banner of the new party led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 27, 2017
Stakes are high in the coming election
Rebounding from low public support, Abe is back on the offensive.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2017
Abe trots out tax hike issue again before snap election to boost LDP chances
The controversy over increasing the consumption tax won't be unfamiliar to those who follow modern Japanese politics, as earlier proposals have proven unpopular with voters throughout the postwar years and have even doomed previous administrations.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2017
LDP Vice President Komura won't run in Lower House election
Veteran lawmaker Masahiko Komura, vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has decided not to run in the Lower House election next month after deciding it will be too physically taxing, a source close to the matter said Monday.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
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Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Man, 28, arrested in Okinawa over burned bodies found in Tochigi
Hikaru Sasaki enters the Metropolitan Police Department's Osaki police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Monday after being arrested on suspicion of disposing of two bodies found in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, earlier this month.
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.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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