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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe carried out a wide-ranging reshuffle of his Cabinet yesterday as had widely been expected following recent elections. The full list of the new Cabinet is as […]
Shinzo Abe Prime Minister Taro Aso Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services, Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation Sanae Takaichi Minister of Internal Affairs […]
Yuriko Koike, a Liberal Democratic Party former Minister of Defence and Minister of Environment was elected Tokyo’s first female Governor yesterday. Koike (64) stood as an Independent against the ruling […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s centre-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and their allies, the centre-right Kōmeitō have won a mid-term election in the House of Councillors or upper house of the […]
An election to the Sangi-in (House of Councillors) took place on 10 July 2016. Half the members are elected every year to serve six year terms. Elected 2016 Total seats LDP–NKP Coalition […]
Following the resignation yesterday of Economic Minister Akira Amari, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has confirmed that the new minister in that portfolio will be Nobuteru Ishihara. Until yesterday Nobuteru Ishihara […]
Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari has announced that he is resigning from his portfolio. The decision came after a week of allegations that the minister took bribes from a construction […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reshuffled his Cabinet, but kept nine of his close allies in key Cabinet posts. Taro Aso, Fumio Kishida, Gen Nakatani and Akira Amari remain […]
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Hakubun Shimomura, has resigned his portfolio. The minister was responsible for the problems over the Tokyo 2020 Olympics stadium which has been […]
IMF Executive Board Concludes 2015 Article IV Consultation with Japan Press Release No. 15/352 July 23, 2015 On July 17, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) […]
Support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s second Cabinet has moved into negative figures for the first time. The latest Yomiuri Shimbun poll reported in the Japan Times puts support for […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has appointed Minister of State Toshiaki Endo as the new Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The appointment comes as costs are […]
Japan goes to the polls again today for the second round of local elections. In the first round on 12th April turnout was about 45%, a record low, with Prime […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) was a clear winner in the local elections which took place last Sunday. Incumbents backed by the LDP won all 10 gubernatorial […]
Japanese voters go to the polls today in local elections. There are ten gubernatorial elections in Hokkaido, Kanagawa, Fukui, Mie, Nara, Tottori, Shimane, Tokushima, Fukuoka and Oita prefectures. There are […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has lost his third Minister in six months as a result of a funding scandal. The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Koya Nishikawa, has resigned […]
A poll published in the Asahi Shimbun suggests that there has been a surge in support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet. The poll gives the Cabinet a […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been confirmed as Prime Minister by Parliament and has announced his Cabinet. The Cabinet remains largely unchanged because, as the Prime Minister explained, he carried […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won his referendum on Abenomics yesterday when his coalition swept to victory in the snap general election. Abe had called the election to try and strengthen […]
An election to the Shugi-in (House of Representatives) took place on 14 December 2014. Prospective LDP–KM Coalition Liberal Democratic Party (Jiyu Minshu-to or Jimintō) 291 Komeito (Komei-to) 35 Third-pole parties […]
Japan’s voters have gone to the polls today to elect the 475 members of the House of Representatives, 295 of which are elected from single seat constituencies FPTP and 180 […]
Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has called a snap general election which is expected to be held on 14th December. The Prime Minister said late yesterday that he would dissolve […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a major setback yesterday when a candidate who opposes United States military air bases was elected as the […]
Hirokazu Nakaima, the current Governor of Okinawa is seeking a third term in office today in the gubernatorial election. Nakaima has been endorsed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic […]
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has appointed two new Cabinet Ministers after the resignations of his Trade and Justice Ministers on Monday. Yoichi Miyazawa has been appointed to be the […]
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Published on: 4th August, 2016
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