2024-11-04 19:52:00
Prime Minister Ishiba is considering appointing Keisuke Suzuki as Minister of Justice and Taku Eto as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to replace the cabinet ministers who lost in the recent House of Representatives election.
2024-11-04 19:22:00
Regarding the issue of politics and money, Constitutional Democratic Party leader Noda indicated his intention to hold meetings with other opposition party leaders from the 5th onwards to strengthen his efforts to influence the LDP in order to quickly realize political reforms such as the abolition of corporate and group donations and policy activity expenses.
2024-11-04 18:16:00
The prosecutorial review committee has decided that the non-indictment of the former Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Hiroshige Seko, who was accused of violating the Political Funds Control Law in relation to a political fund-raising party for the Abe faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, was unjust, and the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Division will reinvestigate the case and decide whether to indict him again. Meanwhile, the committee has decided that Mr. Seko himself should not be indicted.
2024-11-04 15:56:00
Prime Minister Ishiba expressed his intention to attend the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit to be held in Peru in mid-November, and revealed that he is coordinating summit meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Biden while he is there.
2024-11-04 12:58:00
The LDP plans to begin full-scale internal discussions regarding political reform, and one of the focal points is expected to be how to handle the "policy activity expenses" paid by the party to lawmakers, which opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Komeito Party are calling for the abolition of.
2024-11-04 04:44:00
Regarding the issue of abductions by North Korea, the government has recently released messages from the families of missing persons who may have been abducted, calling for cooperation in resolving the issue.
