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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 18, 2021
Japan's LDP vows sharp defense budget hike, but public focus elsewhere
With voters and the party's coalition partner, Komeito, more concerned about resuscitating Japan's pandemic-hit economy, large increases to defense outlays are unlikely to win much support.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 18, 2021
Loss of LDP majority could open up range of coalition options
With 465 seats up for grabs and opposition parties teaming up in some districts, the results of this year's Lower House election are far from certain.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2021
LDP policy chief Sanae Takaichi visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine
Her visit comes after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday sent a ritual offering to the shrine, prompting South Korea to express 'deep disappointment and regret.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 17, 2021
Over 29% of voters support LDP but around 40% remain undecided, poll shows
Asked if Kishida should continue to carry on the policies of Suga and Abe, an overwhelming 68.9% said he should not, while 26.7% said their policies should remain in place.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2021
Japan’s carbon goal is based on restarting 30 nuclear reactors
The LDP has also been promoting the idea of building small modular reactors, saying they are safer than Japan's existing atomic plants.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2021
Japanese coalition partner raises doubt about higher defense spending
Komeito is more moderate on security than the LDP but a disagreement on the increase in defense spending is unlikely to derail the partners' goal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2021
Lower House dissolved as Japan shifts into election season
Kishida is heading into the vote facing a balancing act between placating conservative voters and LDP lawmakers, and seeing off a more united left-leaning opposition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 12, 2021
How the LDP keeps winning
It's precisely because of the LDP and Komeito's massive vote-generating machine that the ruling coalition has an edge over the opposition in the coming election.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 12, 2021
Kishida doubles down on economic security
The new government in Tokyo must fight the temptation to use “economic security” to justify protectionism or other expressions of economic nationalism.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2021
Kishida defends backtrack on capital gains tax in Upper House grilling
The new prime minister had floated an increase in the tax rate during the LDP leadership race, but the idea was omitted from a policy speech he gave Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2021
In election platform, LDP vows to raise middle-class income and boost security
Recently elected party leader and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has already seen his commitment questioned after he walked back earlier plans to review Japan's capital gains tax.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 12, 2021
In election platform, Japan's main opposition force vows to tax the rich
The CDP is aiming to one-up Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose vows to reduce wealth disparity are in question after he walked back plans to review Japan's capital gains tax.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 11, 2021
Opposition presses Kishida on COVID-19 and economic policy in Diet questioning
With an eye on the upcoming Lower House election, CDP leader Yukio Edano mixed his attacks on the new prime minister with counterproposals of his own.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 9, 2021
Japan eyes funding for Taiwan's TSMC to build chip plant
The government is eyeing financial support for TSMC to build a chip-making factory in Kumamoto Prefecture, potentially with Sony Group Corp., that could cost u00a5700 billion to u00a5800 billion.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2021
Japan ruling party manifesto calls for sharp rise in defense spending
The LDP aims to raise the defense budget, which has been about 1% of gross domestic product in recent decades, 'with an eye on bringing it even above 2%,' a draft of the manifesto said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2021
In election platform, LDP to promise tax incentives for companies that raise wages
The LDP platform will also include the enactment of legislation on economic security, an issue Kishida is focusing on amid fierce competition over tech between the U.S. and China.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2021
Kishida calls for new economic approach in first policy speech
Kishida on Friday vowed to transform the Japanese economy by implementing a “new model of capitalism,' identifying growth and the distribution of wealth as “mutually necessary.”
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2021
Kishida, the continuity candidate, must pursue real change
The prime minister's success will be complicated by massive national debt and whether he can put the country's public finances in order.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2021
What’s behind Japan’s ambivalence about Kishida
Kishida has toed a cautious line on almost everything, raising questions about how he will actually deliver on his policies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2021
Will mixed expectations on Kishida affect economic security?
Kishida's approval ratings seem to reflect the current mood of the nation's pandemic-frustrated public.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Paris Olympics kick off with rain-soaked — but grandiose — opening ceremony
Japan's 2024 Olympic team moves down the Seine River in Paris during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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