Liberal Democratic Party

Uh, uh, and the other thing that occurs to me-

Excepting, of course, the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, but they didn't change prime minister.

Sorry to interrupt.

Yeah.

Its chief...

Joina Ogawa told a press conference ending an eight-month attempt to create an effective political counterweight to Takashi's Liberal Democratic Party, LDP.

Said Kaur, once we settle outstanding payments, we will dissolve the party.

The centrist party was formed hastily in January as an attempt to merge two major opposition groups and build a stronger, more unified movement against Takashi.

New party suffered a crushing defeat in February's general election, if you recall, securing only 49 seats in the 465-seat lower house and unsetting more than 100 of its own incumbents seeking re-election.

This is what went chaotic for the party.

The LDP added more than 100 seats, winning 316 in total.

Some members of the centrist are expected to return to their old parties, or then they like to form new groups, new blocks, and adopt new structures.

The measure was included in a draft outline of the government policy to lower the tax rate from eight percent to one percent from April twenty twenty-seven.

The draft was presented to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on September eighth.

Under the income-linked benefit program to start in April next year, the full amount of the handout will be distributed each autumn.

But in fiscal twenty twenty-nine, officials aim to bring forward half of the payment to spring to help low and middle income earners deal with the return of the tax rate to eight percent.

Survey, Koja leading Tamaki in Okinawa governor's race.

A challenger backed by the Liberal Democratic Party holds a slight lead over the incumbent in Okinawa Prefecture's gubernatorial race as voters focus more on economic revitalization than U.S. military base concerns, a survey showed.

However, about 40 percent of respondents in the survey declined to disclose their voting preference, meaning the race could still shift before the September 13 election day.

Gentacoja, 42, has consolidated support among LDP backers and was running strongly among younger voters, according to the survey.

I don't think it's controversial to say.

His family in the Japanese empire and then the post-war running, you know, not Manchuria, but mainland Japan on behalf of America through the LDP party, right? The Liberal Democratic Party or Jiminto, right? And his nieces, Yoko and Akiko, Akiko has a little bit more of a leadership role, She just went to Bhutan for some conference about smart cities.

And they're putting a Buddhist twist on it over there.

They're calling it mindfulness cities.

Japan's constitution is now, in a sense, hanging by a thread.

If Prime Minister Takeichi's Liberal Democratic Party, now holding a majority, proposes constitutional revision, the likelihood of amendment becomes much greater.

I do not think public opinion will approve it easily.

However, those who seek constitutional revision, first, they want to restore the emperor from a symbolic figure to a more substantive political role.

prime minister in constitutional history.

And in February, she had a snap election, and the ruling party, Liberal Democratic Party, LDP, has a landslide win.

So that gives us political stability, and we don't have any general election scheduled up until the 2028, which suggests that unless we have a snap election, we have a political stability at least for the next two years.

So that gives some visibility about the economic policy outlook for the Japanese corporation.

That's one of the reasons why she gained such a so much strong support from the

voters.

But presumably not necessarily always from her party, from people who wanted to move more slowly or had different priorities.

Yeah, but that landslide victory in the last February election has much more flexibility or political power for the Takahichi administration.