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UPPER HOUSE

Yuichiro Tamaki, who has been reinstated as leader of the Democratic Party for the People, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 4, 2025
Tamaki sets sights on Upper House election after retaking DPP reins
The opposition party aims to increase its seat count in the upper chamber of parliament from 12 to 21.
Natsumi Sakai, a Lower House member of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, during an interview in parliament last month
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 4, 2025
Gender equality in politics remains elusive in Japan
Japan has a long way to go before fully achieving gender equality in politics.
Hirofumi Yoshimura (center left), president of Nippon Ishin no Kai, at the party's convention in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2025
Nippon Ishin vows to push ruling bloc into minority in Upper House
"I will accept any outcome and take responsibility in the end," Nippon Ishin leader Hirofumi Yoshimura said at a party convention in Tokyo.
Komeito head Tetsuo Saito speaks at a party meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 28.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 27, 2025
Policy differences push Komeito to tread carefully in LDP coalition
Komeito is likely to emphasize where it stands apart, but it isn't preparing for a breakup with the ruling party.
Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a party convention in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 25, 2025
CDP to accelerate election preparations after party convention
The CDP adopted a program of activities for fiscal 2025 that positions a change of government as its top goal.
Yuko Obuchi, head of the LDP's Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2025
LDP to actively use social media for election victory
Achieving a victory in the election for the upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, is the most important challenge for the party this year.
Ichiro Aisawa (second from left), head of the Liberal Democratic Party's Research Commission on the Election System, addresses a meeting of major political parties on election-related issues held at the parliament building on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 16, 2025
Japan parties to tackle issue of collaborating candidates
A provision to unify the size and other aspects of posters, which currently vary by election type, was also included in the bill.
Dewi Sukarno (center) at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 14, 2025
Celebrity Dewi Sukarno launches political group for animal rights
The 12 Heiwa To party, whose name is a play on "wan-nyan" (bow-meow), will focus on animal protection as its main policy.
Motohisa Furukawa, acting head of the Democratic Party for the People, emphasizes the importance of winning the Upper House election scheduled for this summer.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 11, 2025
In policy platform, Democratic Party for the People vows to boost take-home pay
The party aims to boost morale further in the run-up to this summer's House of Councilors poll following its spectacular performance in last year's general election.
Only couples experiencing infertility would be eligible to access assisted reproductive technology, while those in de facto marriages and same-sex couples will be excluded.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 6, 2025
Assisted reproductive tech bill submitted to Upper House
The proposed legislation is aimed at guaranteeing the right of people born through the use of such technology to know their origins.
Ryohei Iwatani, secretary-general of Nippon Ishin no Kai, holds a news conference on Wednesday in the National Diet Building.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 23, 2025
Nippon Ishin proposes primaries to unify opposition candidates
The proposal calls for conducting online public opinion polls in constituencies where multiple opposition parties plan to field candidates.
Seiji Maehara, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai, is interviewed in Tokyo on Thursday. The party is calling for a ban on political donations from firms and organizations.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 19, 2025
Nippon Ishin stresses need for corporate donation ban
Nippon Ishin has also called for making high school free, eliminating nursery fees for kids up to 2 and realizing tuition-free higher education.
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama speaks to reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 19, 2025
LDP heavyweight Moriyama boosting profile within party
Moriyama's increased presence within the Ishiba administration has failed to shore up low levels of public support.
Yoshihiko Noda, the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, gives a speech in the city of Kitakyushu last week.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 13, 2025
CDP's Noda looks to local elections to build party's momentum
The moves by main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan chief Yoshihiko Noda come amid speculation of a rare double election this summer.
"This is a year of elections," Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (center) told peer LDP executives at a party meeting held Tuesday to mark party members' start of work for this year, at LDP headquarters in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 10, 2025
Talk of summer double election persists in Japan
The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito have agreed to begin preparations for the next Lower House election.
Voters take pictures and videos of a candidate campaigning for the Tokyo gubernatorial election in Tokyo's Chuo Ward in June.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 8, 2025
Japanese political parties struggling to use social media effectively
Social media proved to be a powerful campaign tool in 2024 elections, shocking political parties that had stuck to old-fashioned campaigns.
Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during a news conference in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 4, 2025
CDP chief Noda rejects grand coalition with LDP
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as LDP president, said Wednesday that there "should be an option to form" such a tie-up.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a meeting in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 28, 2024
Ishiba hints at possibility of double election next summer
An Upper House poll is scheduled for next July, and Ishiba hinted at the possibility that a Lower House election might coincide with that poll.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during an Upper House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2024
Opening ethics panel hearings to media could allay public suspicions, Ishiba says
Of the 27 scandal-hit Upper House lawmakers willing to face ethics panel hearings, 23 have sought for the sessions to be held behind closed doors.
In last month’s Lower House election, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who also serves as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, excluded members implicated in a slush funds scandal who refused to attend a Lower House ethics hearing earlier this year from the party’s proportional representation candidates list.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
More scandal-hit LDP lawmakers to attend Upper House ethics hearing
The lawmakers could be at a disadvantage in next summer's Upper House election if they do not attend the hearing.
Osaka Expo-linked spending expected to hit ¥1 trillion
The Osaka Expo site on Yumeshima island in December.
The North Korea taekwondo supremo that Austria can't kick
The entrance sign of the headquarters of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is pictured, on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, on March 5, 2025. While the sports organization has faced accusations of working for Pyongyang, ITF has denied "any wrongdoing," insisting the federation promotes taekwondo worldwide.
Amid labor shortage, Japan approves guidelines to upskill foreign workers
A Vietnamese worker harvests tomatoes at a farm in the city of Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, in 2018.
Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida to step down
Makoto Uchida, CEO of Nissan, will step down from the post at the end of this month.
Man arrested after fatal stabbing of woman in Shinjuku Ward
Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police examine the scene where a woman in her 20s was stabbed on Tuesday morning in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
‘We are not Ukraine’: Top Taiwan officials temper comparisons after U.S. U-turn
People hold a Ukrainian flag and a Taiwan flag during a protest to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Taipei on Feb. 23.
14 years after 3/11 disasters, Fukushima vies to become a startup hub
Aizawa Concrete employees work in the Namie factory in Fukushima Prefecture in January.
Tokyo’s vinyl experts say overseas buyers are ‘sustaining the scene’
Rintaro Sekizuka runs a record store in both London and Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
Slowly but surely, Osaka emerges from Kyoto’s fine-dining shadow
Bar Bota, the 37th-floor watering hole at the Four Seasons Osaka, looks out on a glittering cityscape better known for its cheap eats and drinks.
Cherry blossom season set to kick off on March 21 in Tokyo
A Weathernews forecast shows the cherry blossom season will begin on March 21 in Tokyo.

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