Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivered on two big tasks — but at a cost. A misjudged snap election cost the LDP its Lower House majority, forced painful concessions, and now threatens his job. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/09/japan/ldp-shigeru-ishiba-replacement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ldp #shigeruishiba #fumiokishida #yoshihidesuga #politicalfunds #budgets #diet #lowerhouse #upperhouse

Japan's Upper House has passed a revised budget bill for fiscal 2025 and sent it back to the Lower House for approval by the end of Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/japan/politics/japan-set-to-pass-budget/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #budgets #upperhouse #diet #shigeruishiba

With just days to go before the end of the current fiscal year, Japan's parliament has yet to pass the budget for fiscal 2025. Is this a big problem? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/28/japan/politics/budget-march-passage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #budgets #shigeruishiba #ldp #cdp #2025upperhouseelection #upperhouse

A Japanese lawmaker spoke at a meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons for the first time as he attended the third conference in New York on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/05/japan/japan-lawmaker-nuke-ban-treaty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #upperhouse #hiroshima #nuclearweapons #newyork

With female lawmakers holding only 15.7% of all seats in Japan's House of Representatives, gender equality in politics is still elusive in the nation as it marks the 80th anniversary of women's suffrage this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/04/japan/politics/gender-equality-politics-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #women039sissues #diet #lowerhouse #upperhouse

A supplementary provision in the bill says that lawmakers will "continue to consider and take necessary measures" regarding people filing candidacies to back others. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/16/japan/politics/political-parties-election-issues/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #upperhouse #tokyometropolitanassembly #misinformation

Television celebrity Dewi Sukarno, who was the third wife of then-Indonesian President Sukarno, has announced the launch of a political group for animal protection in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/14/japan/politics/dewi-sukarno-political-group/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #dewisukarno #upperhouse #animals #animalwelfare #houseofcouncilors

A bill aimed at guaranteeing the right of people born through the use of specified assisted reproductive technology to know their origins has been submitted to Japan's Upper House of parliament. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/06/japan/science-health/assisted-reproductive-tech-submission/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #children #upperhouse #humanrights #humanrights #mynumber

Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, has rejected the idea of forming a grand coalition with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/04/japan/politics/cdp-noda-grand-coalition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #cdp #yoshihikonoda #dpfp #nipponishinnokai #upperhouse #diet

Holding hearings of a parliamentary political ethics panel in a way that is open to the media is "one method" of allaying public suspicions about a slush funds scandal involving the LDP, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba suggested. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/13/japan/ishiba-ethics-panel-hearings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ldp #upperhouse #diet #politicalfunds #shigeruishiba

More Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers implicated in the party's slush funds scandal are likely to attend an expected Upper House ethics hearing amid fears that not doing so would put them at a disadvantage in next summer's election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/28/japan/politics/ldp-ethics-panel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #politicalfunds #upperhouse