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Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)--Expectations among women for Japan's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, have turned into disappointment over the past year, Shin Ki-young, a professor at the Institute for Gender Studies at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, said in a recent interview. "Women and younger voters who were not traditional supporters of the Liberal Democratic Party had high e...
Tottori, Oct. 21 (Jiji Press)--Tottori Governor Shinji Hirai said Wednesday that he will not run for re-election after his current fifth term expires in April 2027. The gubernatorial election of the western Japan prefecture is scheduled for April 11 next year as part of the country's unified local elections. No one has yet announced a bid for the governorship. Hirai served as chairman of...
With her government entering its second year on Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may face growing questions over whether her leadership style, oft-described as assertive, could fuel discontent within her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Bolstered by high public approval ratings and an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives, Takaichi has pushed through divisive legislation and made personnel appointments heavily tinged with her will. Political analysts warn that...
Tokyo, Oct. 19 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Tatsunori Ibayashi on Monday became the second minister to visit war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its autumn festival this year, following growth strategy minister Minoru Kiuchi. Ibayashi visited the shrine as a member of a suprapartisan group led by Ichiro Aizawa of the ruling Liberal Demo...
Tokyo, Oct. 18 (Jiji Press)--An executive of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday denied that scandal-hit former agriculture minister Kazuo Yana had influenced budget cuts for municipalities whose mayors did not support him in a general election. Commenting on Yana's remark that road budgets had been significantly reduced for the municipalities, LDP Executive Acting Secretary-G...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she plans to attend the APEC leaders summit hosted by China if parliament permits, confirming her willingness to visit amid a deep freeze of ties between the two Asian economies.
Tokyo, Oct. 15 (Jiji Press)--The public approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's cabinet fell 1.7 percentage points from the previous month to 42.4 pct in October, hitting the lowest level since she took office a year ago, a Jiji Press survey showed Thursday. The rate fell for the fifth straight month. According to the survey, conducted for four days through Monday, the...
Tokyo, Oct. 13 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government is considering including in its revised three key security-related documents plans to study and research the possibility of introducing a nuclear submarine. Discussions have so far been led mainly by some eager politicians, and the purpose of the possible nuclear submarine introduction remains unclear. Aiming to revise the three docume...
Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reiterated her intention on Friday to keep embattled agriculture minister Kazuo Yana in his post. "I want him to leverage his abundant knowledge and policymaking ability and work harder than anyone to strengthen food security," Takaichi said at a plenary meeting of the Senate, the upper chamber of the Diet, after an oppositi...
Tokyo, Oct. 2 (Jiji Press)--Controversial remarks and alleged election law violations involving two newly appointed Japanese ministers have raised concerns within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party before a parliamentary session opens on Monday. Opposition forces are poised to grill the administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during the parliamentary session over her responsibility...
Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--The maximum vote-value disparity among single-seat constituencies for Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, was 2.275 times, according to the final 2025 national census data released by the internal affairs ministry Tuesday. Forty of the Lower House's 289 single-seat constituencies had vote-value gaps of at least two times, a level ...
New York, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan confronted China and North Korea at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday over the U.N. Charter's enemy state clauses, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for the clauses to be deleted in her U.N. speech on Sept. 22. During Monday's session, Chinese Deputy Permanent Representative Sun Lei said that the clauses provide institutional safegu...
Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government told the Diet, the country's parliament, on Tuesday that an extraordinary session will be convened Monday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara conveyed the plan to the boards of the steering committees in both Diet chambers. The Diet session is expected to run for 69 days through Dec. 12. It will be the first time that full-scale po...