Japan Digest
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
Ruling Parties Lost The Majority Of The House Of Representatives In the House of Representatives election on October 27, the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito suffered a major defeat, losing a combined total of 64 seats and forfeiting their majority. Meanwhile, the largest opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ), significantly expanded its power, increasing from 98 to 148 seats, and other opposition parties, except for the Japan...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. Ishiba Reversed LDP’s Downtrend But Not Strong Enough As reported last time, Ishiba as new President of LDP was elected as the 102nd PM in the extraordinary Diet session on October 1 and formed his first cabinet on the same day. And then, he dissolved the House of Representatives on October 9 and set a general election date as October 27. It is just 8 days from the formation of the cabinet up to the dissolution of the lower house, which is the shortest record ever since the end of the...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. Ishiba As New PM Made It Clear To Dissolve The House Of Representatives Ruling LDP’s presidential election was held on September 27 and no candidate was able to secure a majority share of the effective votes in the first round. In its succeeding runoff, Mr. Shigeru Ishiba, who received the second largest ballots in the first voting was able to come from behind Ms. Sanae Takaichi to win the party presidency. Although Ishiba had been against LDP’s mainstream groups like the Aso faction and...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. Ishiba, Takaichi and Koizumi Lead The Post Kishida Race Since the previous digest that reported about a dozen hopefuls to run for the post Kishida race, nine of them were eventually qualified as official candidates by being able to collect recommendations of 20 or more Diet members individually. According to Yomiuri’s survey, which was conducted on September 14 and 15, Mr. Shigeru Ishiba, Mr. Shinjiro Koiumi and Ms. Sanae Takaichi are most popular candidates so far in terms of registered...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. A Dozen Hopefuls To Run For The Post Kishida Race In the wake of PM Kishida’s recent announcement that he would not run for reelection of the LDP’s presidency in September, twelve Diet members of LDP reportedly showed interest in running for the post Kishida race. Kishida Cabinet’s approval ratings have been in 20%s since November last year according to NHK’s monthly survey. Strong public dissatisfaction against LDP’s political fund handling practices has not allowed the approval...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Ishiba Released A Book To Show His Confidence To Be Post-Kishida According to NHK’s monthly survey, which was conducted from August 2 through August 4, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating remained unchanged at 25%, while its disapproval rating went down by 2 points to 55%. Although there was no announcement by any of the hopefuls to run for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election this week, former Secretary General of the party Shigeru Ishiba released his book...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Stayed Low According to Yomiuri’s monthly survey, which was conducted from July 19 through July 21, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went up by 2 points to 25%, while its disapproval rating went down by 2 points to 62%. This is the 9th month in row for the approval ratings to hang low over below 30%. Although PM Kishida and his team are trying to find a way out, the media is now frequently reporting the signs of the post-Kishida movement. None of the...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Went Up To 25% According to NHK’s monthly survey, which was conducted from July 5 through July 7, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went up by 4 points to 25%, while its disapproval rating went down by 3 points to 57%. Although neither the passage of the amendment of the Political Fund Control Law nor the onetime tax break in June did raise Kishida’s approval ratings, it seems that the Kishida Administration’s decision to provide households with a...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Amendment Of The Political Fund Control Law Didn’t Improve Kishida’s Approval Rating According to Yomiuri’s monthly survey, which was conducted from June 21 through 23, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went down by 3 points to 23%, which is the lowest ever since Kishida inaugurated his cabinet in October of 2021. Its disapproval rating went up by one point to 64%. 56% of the respondents did not appreciate the restrictions and transparency rules out of the Amended Political Fund...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Kishida Administration Drafted Basic Policy Of Economic & Fiscal Reform The Kishida Administration presented a draft of “Basic Policy of Economic and Fiscal Reform” at the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on June 11, the media reported. The basic policy is intended to make the Japanese economy completely getting out of the deflation spiral by spurring the present trend of salary and income growth to be sustainable and to set a new economic stage to make its annual GDP reach the...