Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition partner warned that a proposal to broaden the military's role to strike back against enemy attacks risks upsetting Japan's neighbors. "Japan has gained the trust of neighboring countries by adopting an exclusively defensive posture," Natsuo Yamaguchi, who leads the Buddhist-backed ...
Leaders of the major political parties denounced each other’s policies on the economy and Constitution on Saturday as they wound down their campaigns for the House of Councilors election.
Neither the Constitution nor the contentious security laws enacted last year should become key issues in the Upper House election, said Natsuo Yamaguchi, president of Komeito, the junior partner in the ruling coalition. "A nationwide debate over the issue of constitutional revision is so immature ...
The head of the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition on Thursday handed Chinese President Xi Jinping a letter from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and invited him to visit Tokyo around spring. Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, briefly met with Xi in a ...
Japan should not rule out imposing a lower rate of consumption tax on certain goods, the head of Komeito told party lawmakers Tuesday. Komeito favors the system as a way to ease the burden on low-income earners when the tax rate is raised. Natsuo Yamaguchi, ...
The leader of Komeito, junior partner in the ruling coalition, is considering visiting China and South Korea in October to clear the way for an envisioned summit between the three countries, a top party member said Saturday. Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi hopes to meet with ...
The leader of the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition expressed concern Saturday over the stock rallies and rapid weakening of the yen following the Bank of Japan's decision Friday to ease monetary policy even further. "Side effects are bound to accompany" the developments in ...
Natsuo Yamaguchi, the just re-elected chief of New Komeito, and other party leaders should realize that if the party fails to ensure that Japan stays on the pacifist road with respect to the passage of new legislation, it will lose its raison d'etre.
At its convention in Tokyo on Sunday, the New Komeito party, the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, approved a fourth two-year term — until September 2016 — for its leader, Natsuo Yamaguchi. Other party executives, including Secretary-General Yoshihisa Inoue and Kazuo Kitagawa, New Komeito's ...
The ruling coalition closes in on three new standards that would let the Japanese military use force in cases other than when Japan is under attack.
The leader of the ruling party's smaller coalition partner said Friday that he does not agree with the defense policy changes that would allow Japanese forces to fight overseas to help allies, despite U.S. support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's review of the stance. Abe ...
Differences within New Komeito mean Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition partner may not back submitting a bill to legalize casinos during the current Diet session. "I don't necessarily think we will reach consensus on submitting the bill to the current session and moving forward with ...
