Lawsuits filed to nullify election results over vote-weight disparities
Two groups of lawyers filed suits Monday with high courts seeking to nullify the results of Sunday's election because of the Diet's perceived failure to correct disparities in the weight of votes among districts. A group led by Hidetoshi Masunaga submitted suits to the Okayama ...
Business leaders call for 'third arrow' reforms after LDP-Komeito election win
Business leaders have urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to accelerate economic reforms in the light of the ruling coalition's Lower House election win on Sunday. "We hope it will promote further reforms, including enhancing the 'third arrow,' and thereby restore the Japanese economy," Yasuchika Hasegawa, ...
Resurgent JCP has night to remember
While the leaders of most of the opposition parties were grim-faced Sunday night, the Japanese Communist Party was celebrating after it more than doubled its seats in the Lower House. The party now has 21 lawmakers in the chamber, up from eight before Prime Minister ...
'Womenomics' takes a hit with only 45 females elected to Lower House
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's call for the empowerment of women was looking hollow Monday after only 45 of the 475 Lower House seats up for grabs went to female candidates. The figure is a slight improvement on the 38 seats won by women in the ...
China wary of Abe's next steps; South Korea hopes for better ties
China will be keeping a close eye on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, especially his desire to revise the pacifist Constitution and a speech planned next year to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, Chinese state media said Monday, a day ...
Outspoken nationalist Shintaro Ishihara, supreme adviser to Jisedai no To (Party for Future Generations) and a former longtime governor of Tokyo, lost his Lower House seat in Sunday's snap election.. The 82-year-old veteran lawmaker had said he would retire from politics if he was unsuccessful ...
Teruaki Masumoto, whose sister was abducted by North Korea, failed to secure a seat in Sunday's election after running on the ticket of tiny opposition group Jisedai no To (Party for Future Generations). Masumoto, 59, failed to win in both the single-seat No. 2 constituency ...
Office of ex-Your Party chief searched in September over more shady fund dealings
Prosecutors searched former Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe's office and other related locations in September in connection with a funding scandal that forced him to quit as head of the now-defunct opposition party, sources said. The prosecutors, who searched the office in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, ...
Abe tightens grip on power as ruling coalition wins 325 seats in Lower House election
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, its junior partner in the ruling coalition, won the Lower House election by a landslide Sunday, claiming 325 seats in the powerful chamber. In an election billed as a touchstone for the LDP's economic policies, the ...
DPJ President Kaieda loses Diet seat, set to quit as leader
In a stunning development early Monday morning, Banri Kaieda, president of the Democratic Party of Japan learned he lost his Diet seat in Sunday's Lower House election and is now set to quit as leader of the nation's largest opposition force. It is unprecedented for ...
After struggling throughout his campaign, ex-Prime Minister Naoto Kan, a former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, won the last seat in Sunday's national election, which saw candidates vying for the 475 seats in the Lower House.Like the last election two years ago, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, its junior partner in the ruling coalition, win the Lower House election by a landslide Sunday, claiming 325 seats.
