September 19, 2025

Japanese Communist Party Executive Committee Chair Tamura Tomoko on September 18 met with Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan President Noda Yoshihiko in the Diet building, and agreed to join forces not only to put an end to LDP politics but also to counter the emerging far-right as well as xenophobic influence.

Noda expressed his gratitude to Tamura for the JCP’s cooperation in the July House of Councillors election in which unified opposition candidates won a victory in 12 out of 17 single-seat constituencies, the highest number that the citizen-opposition force ever achieved in Upper House elections.

JCP Tamura noted that the joint struggle of opposition parties with concerned citizens in the Upper House election, following the Lower House race in October 2024, had succeeded in pushing the LDP-Komei coalition into a minority position in the Diet. She continued, “We’d like to keep working together with your party to force an end to LDP politics,” and called for cooperation for reversing the far-right, xenophobic tide.

CDPJ Noda stated that both in last year’s general election and this year’s Upper House election, the party consistently campaigned to defeat the LDP, and affirmed that it will continue to pursue this path. Expressing concern over the rise of “right-wing populism,” he added, “We will also strive to defeat the forces behind the surge in right-wing populism.”

Those who were present at the meeting included: from the JCP, Secretariat Head Koike Akira, Policy Commission Chair Yamazoe Taku, and Diet Policy Commission Chair Shiokawa Tetsuya; and from the CDPJ, Secretary General Azumi Jun, Diet Affairs Committee Chair Ryu Hirofumi, and Policy Research Committee Chair Honjo Satoshi.