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(January 20, 2024)
Koike: LDP should fully explain all its funding scandals before dissolving LDP factions
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(January 17, 2024)
GSDF top officers’ visit to Yasukuni Shrine may violate 1974 official notice
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(January 12, 2024)
Member lineup of ‘LDP reform body’ arouses public criticism
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(January 11, 2024)
Tokyo forcibly begins soft-ground improvement work for US base construction in Okinawa
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(January 10, 2024)
GSDF vice chief of staff visits Yasukuni shrine
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(January 8, 2024)
LDP Abe faction’s sitting Dietmember arrested over slush-fund scandal
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(January 6, 2024)
Shii: Political reform HQ without disclosing truth behind slush fund scandal is meaningless
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(January 6, 2024)
PM Kishida evades referring to LDP slush-fund allegations and quake-caused N-power plant troubles
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(December 29, 2023)
Ex-State Minister of Justice Kakizawa arrested for vote-buying
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(December 23, 2023)
Gov’t proposes almost 8 trillion yen for military spending in 2024 budget
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(December 23, 2023)
Rengo appears to prioritize serving as impediment to opposition parties’ alliance over protecting workers’ labor rights
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(December 20, 2023)
LDP’s fundraising scandal highlights need for total ban on political donations from corporations and interest groups
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(December 19, 2023)
LDP’s unreported profits from fundraising events cause drop in Cabinet support rating in all polls
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(December 18, 2023)
Gov’t seeks to open path to exports of lethal arms made in Japan under foreign license
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(December 15, 2023)
Koike: To draw curtain on slush fund scandal with removal of 4 Cabinet members is unacceptable
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(December 14, 2023)
Shii calls for a national movement seeking to put end to LDP rule
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(December 14, 2023)
Law to monitor Unification Church assets enacted
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(December 14, 2023)
Gov’t favorite decision-making boards will be installed in national universities
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(December 13, 2023)
JCP takes to the streets to increase public support for probe into LDP’s off-the-book funds scandal
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(December 12, 2023)
JCP demands summoning of Abe faction’s politicians as sworn witnesses to testify before Diet over off-the-book money scandal
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(December 8, 2023)
Opposition parties agree on common agenda as put forth by Civil Alliance
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(December 6, 2023)
JCP submits bill to restrict fundraiser ticket sales
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(December 2, 2023)
Tamura reveals that PM Kishida earns 90% return from fundraising parties
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(November 30, 2023)
Yamazoe demands that Japan in COP28 Dubai raise issue of military GHG emissions
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(November 30, 2023)
13-trillion-yen supplementary budget for FY2023 approved
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(November 25, 2023)
All political parties except for JCP depend on gov’t subsidies
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(November 23, 2023)
Already 47% of estimated total landfill budget spent for only 14% of Henoko reclamation work
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(November 22, 2023)
Koike calls for probe into alleged use of Cabinet’s secret funds for 2020 Olympic bid
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(November 22, 2023)
Japan plans to deploy F35s in Japan – the same aircraft as used in Gaza airstrikes
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(November 21, 2023)
Diet debates on supplementary budget bill commences
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(November 21, 2023)
Bill to strengthen gov’t control over national universities passed through Lower House
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(November 18, 2023)
Shii comments on latest Kishida-Xi talks
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(November 18, 2023)
Shii to Foreign Minister: Japan demands that Israel abide by UNSC resolution
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(November 15, 2023)
University personnel voice opposition to proposed establishment of gov’t-backed university boards
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(November 14 & 15, 2023)
Koike: To draw curtain on unpaid tax scandal just with vice finance minister’s resignation is unacceptable
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(November 10, 2023)
Yamazoe criticizes gov’t for not regarding Israel’s acts as breach of international humanitarian law
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(November 8 & 9, 2023)
Shiokawa: LDP should cut its ties with Moonies-affiliated anticommunist federation
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(November 8, 2023)
Koike raps Moonies for trying to evade dissolution order
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(November 4, 2023)
Sales tax cut far more effective than one-time income tax cuts for boosting economy
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(November 1, 2023)
State Minister of Justice resigns for his involvement in election campaign misconduct
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(October 31, 2023)
JCP Miyamoto criticizes Japan’s abstention from UNGA resolution calling for humanitarian truce in Gaza
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(October 31, 2023)
50 years since ex-Okinawa People’s Party joined with JCP
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(October 28, 2023)
‘Group to bring gov’t change into reality’ formed
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(October 27, 2023)
Koike in interpellation calls for minimum hourly wage of 1,500 yen and elimination of gender wage gap without delay
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JCP and CDPJ agree to ‘work together and join forces’ in next general election
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(October 26, 2023)
Shii in interpellation squares off against PM Kishida
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(October 25, 2023)
Gov’t seeks to infiltrate decision-making bodies in national universities
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(October 23 & 24, 2023)
Opposition/citizens-backed candidate wins in Upper House by-election
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(October 24, 2023)
Shii comments on PM Kishida’s policy speech
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(October 21, 2023)
Shii calls on all JCP Dietmembers to engage in active debate in extra Diet session