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  • LDP Presidential Candidates Propose Blocking Tax Hike, Payments to Offset Inflation

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    September 13, 2024

  • LDP Presidential Hopefuls Call for Reducing Burden on Young People; Candidates Suggest Lowering Social Security Payments, Raising Incomes

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    September 13, 2024

  • LDP Candidates Divided on Separate Surnames for Couples; Consolidation of Party’s Opinion on Issue Urged

    Regarding the issue of allowing married couples to select separate family names, the Liberal Demo...

    September 13, 2024

  • LDP Election Issues to Include Constitutional Revision, Succession to Throne

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    September 13, 2024

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    September 12, 2024

  • Record 9 Running For Presidency of Japan’s Ruling LDP; Social Security, Political Reform Among Top Issues

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    September 12, 2024

  • Families of Japanese Abducted by N. Korea Appeal for LDP, CDPJ Leadership Candidates to Resolve Abduction Issue; Abductee Megumi Yokota to Turn 60 Next Month

    The Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea have called for ruling and oppos...

    September 12, 2024

  • Japan Coast Guard Study Program to Accept Palau Official, for 1st Participant from Pacific Islands

    The Pacific island nation of Palau is set to dispatch a coast guard official to Japan who will pa...

    September 11, 2024

  • Japan Foreign Minister Announces Bid for LDP Presidency; Yoko Kamikawa to Make First Attempt to Lead Party

    Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa on Wednesday announced she would run for president of the Liberal ...

    September 11, 2024

  • LDP’s Kato Announces Bid for Party Leadership

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, 68, announced Tuesday his int...

    September 11, 2024

  • Yamaguchi Announces Decision to Quit as Komeito Head

    Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press) — Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi said Tuesday that he plans to stan...

    September 10, 2024

  • Meeting of Quad Nations Leaders to Be Held in Biden’s Home State; Annual Summit Includes Government Heads from Japan, U.S., Australia, India

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    September 10, 2024

  • Cooperation Among Opposition Parties a Focus in CDJP Race; Debate Reveals Differences Among Four Election Candidates

    The leadership election for the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is expected to give cand...

    September 10, 2024

  • Candidates in CDPJ Leadership Race Present Different Policy Views About How to Treat Nuclear Power Plants, Consumption Tax

    The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan likens its party presidential election to a “semi-fi...

    September 9, 2024

  • Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi Announces Candidacy for LDP Presidential Eletion

    Economic security Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday announced her candidacy for the upcoming Libe...

    September 9, 2024

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