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TOKYO (Reuters) -The make-up of Japan's future government was in flux on Monday after voters punished Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's scandal-tainted coalition in a weekend snap election, leaving ...
Several political parties exist in Japan. However, the politics of Japan have primarily been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1955, with the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) playing an important role as the opposition several times. The DPJ was the ruling party from 2009 to 2012 with the LDP as the opposition.
Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9%, slower than the earlier report for 3.1% growth, in the April-June period, boosted by better wages and spending, revised government data showed Monday.
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (立憲民主党, Rikken-minshutō, CDP [10] or CDPJ [11]) is a liberal [12] political party in Japan. It is the primary centre-left party in Japan, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and as of 2024 is the second largest party in the National Diet behind the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
A dispute within the NHK Party, a political party in Japan, began on April 7, 2023 when former party leader Takashi Tachibana, who earlier resigned in favor of the current leader Ayaka Otsu the previous month announced in a press conference that he was re-assuming the leadership without prior knowledge of Otsu. This led to her denying the ...
The Government of Japan is the central government of Japan. It consists of legislative , executive and judiciary branches and functions under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan , adopted in 1947 and written by American officials in the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II .
The group was formed on August 10, 2023, by councillors Satoshi Hamada and Kenichiro Saito, who formerly belonged to the political party with the same name.Due to an ongoing leadership dispute between former and de facto leader Takashi Tachibana and the incumbent de jure leader Ayaka Otsu, the Otsu wing of the party expelled the both of them from the party for aligning themselves with Tachibana.
Minor candidates included ultranationalist and anti-Korean political activist Makoto Sakurai, who ran under the Japan First Party, [16] and Atsuhiko Kurokawa, who was arrested in June 2024 for alleged election interference and sabotage during a House of Representatives by-election in April 2024, who ran under the Tsubasa Party. [17] [18]