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Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday presented a compromise proposal to cut the number of proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives by 31. The new proposal was shown at a meeting among nine political parties on election system reform for the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament. The LDP and i...
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has marked one year in office still riding relatively high in public opinion polls – a heady position that few political analysts anticipated despite geopolitical tensions and persistent inflation. A poll by the conservative-leaning Yomiuri newspaper published on Monday indicated that Takaichi’s cabinet retains the support of 57 per cent of the Japanese public, down two percentage points from the previous survey on September 18 and significantly lower than...
Tokyo, Oct. 20 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday drew up a set of emergency proposals, including a request for the government to set up a headquarters to counter cyberattacks under the initiative of the prime minister's office, following a recent series of unauthorized computer access leading to personal data breaches at companies in the country. The LDP's Hea...
Tokyo, Oct. 1 (Jiji Press)--A project team of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party submitted to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday a proposal for measures to restrict speculative trading of condominiums. Takaichi said that her government will steadily work on the matter. In the proposal, the team under the party's Headquarters for Foreign Nationals Policy said that some have ci...