The Democratic Party for the People heads into the upcoming Upper House election hoping to nearly double its total seats, but three proportional seat candidates are creating headaches for party leaders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/23/japan/politics/dpp-issues/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #tokyo #tokyometropolitanassembly #dpp #yuichirotamaki #2025upperhouseelection
A year after Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te took office, domestic political turmoil has engulfed the island, stymieing his agenda as it faces Chinese military pressure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/19/asia-pacific/politics/taiwan-lai-ching-te-one-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #laichingte #taiwan #china #dpp #kmt
Japan's Cabinet has approved a long-postponed bill for reforming the pension system following lengthy internal discussions and fierce resistance from within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/16/japan/politics/pension-bill-cabinet-decision/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #pensions #socialwelfare #jobs #ldp #diet #elderly #ldp #dpp #cdp #shigeruishiba #yuichirotamaki #shinzoabe
As Japan nears summer elections, debate over the consumption tax grows, with opposition pushing cuts to ease pressure on households and the government defending it amid rising debt. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/05/16/the-consumption-tax-debate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #consumptiontax #ldp #cdp #dpp #komeito #shigeruishida #upperhouseelection
With the ruling coalition in crisis, the opposition divided and the Democratic Party for the People gaining momentum, Japan’s upcoming Upper House election could trigger a major political realignment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/05/15/japan/japans-upper-house-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ldp #cdp #dpp #komeito #shigeruishida #upperhouseelection
Debate on Japan's consumption tax is set to dominate the upcoming Upper House election in July. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/13/japan/politics/consumption-tax/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #consumptiontax #taxes #ldp #japaneseeconomy #shigeruishiba #hiroshimoriyama #cdp #dpp #komeito
The Legislative Bureau of Japan's Lower House has been working in overdrive in recent months, with a hung parliament leading to more debate and an increase in the number of lawmaker-initiated bills. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/09/japan/politics/hung-diet-overwhelms-lower-house-bureau/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #diet #lowerhouse #ldp #komeito #cdp #dpp #nipponishinnokai
Opinions are split in Japan over whether to regulate sexual content in online advertisements, with advocates seeking measures to better protect children and critics saying they might infringe on freedom of expression. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/07/japan/media/sexual-ads-view-split/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #media #advertising #children #internet #constitution #ldp #dpp
At first glance, Japan's political landscape looks favorable for discussing constitutional revision — and yet, wider debates on amending the top law have stalled. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/03/japan/politics/constitution-rethink-far-off/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shigreruishiba #ldp #constitution #article9 #dpp #nipponishinnokai #komeito
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan submitted a bill to the Lower House that would allow married couples to have different surnames, in the first act of what’s set to be a long debate. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/30/japan/politics/cdp-separate-surname-bill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #women039sissues #diet #marriage #names #familyregistry #familylaw #cdp #nipponishinnokai #dpp #ldp #komeito
As his chief trade negotiator heads to the U.S. for talks with President Donald Trump’s administration, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is getting lots of advice on how best to deal with Trump's demands. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/30/japan/politics/dealing-with-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shigeruishiba #yoshihikonoda #seijimaehara #yuichirotamaki #ldp #cdp #nipponishinnokai #dpp
The Japanese government has set up a panel to discuss measures to support the “employment ice age generation” — a move seen by some as an attempt to respond to the opposition and appeal to voters ahead of an election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/25/japan/politics/employment-ice-age-measures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #jobs #employmenticeagegeneration #lostgeneration #ldp #shigeruishiba #dpp #yuichirotamaki
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s decision to tentatively lower gasoline prices by ¥10 per liter drew ire from opposition parties calling for axing the provisional gasoline tax. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/23/japan/politics/ishiba-gasoline-prices/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shigeruishiba #inflation #oil #energy #electricity #dpp #cdp #komeito
Amid a litany of complaints over younger people having scarce interest in politics in Japan, a movement to expand the next generation’s access to the political arena is slowly gaining traction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/21/japan/politics/lowering-age-electoral-eligibility/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #votingage #ageofmajority #adulthood #ldp #dpp #diet
A league of lawmakers within the Liberal Democratic Party and one in the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan are each planning to propose lowering the consumption tax on food products from the current 8% to 0%. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/18/japan/politics/ldp-cdp-consumption-tax-on-food/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #cdp #komeito #nipponishinnokai #dpp #tax #consumptiontax
Yup: there really are way too many scumbags in the ranks of #Taiwan's #KMT.
Sung Chien-liang (宋建樑), the leader of a Kuomintang-backed campaign to recall a #DPP lawmaker, was wearing a Nazi armband and carrying a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf when he repeatedly gave a Nazi salute in front of reporters outside the prosecutors' office on Tuesday.
The man... is suspected of involvement in signature fraud relating to a recall vote campaign against a DPP lawmaker.
A bill seeking to spell out the rights of children conceived through artificial insemination by donor raises the thorny question of when they can access information on their biological parents, and to what extent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/15/japan/science-health/aid-bill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #pregnancy #hospitals #parenthood #invitro #women039sissues #ldp #komeito #dpp #nipponishinnokai
For the first time in 16 years, a prime minister from the Liberal Democratic Party has held talks with the leader of Japan's largest labor union group. What is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's motive for doing so? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/15/japan/politics/ishiba-rengo-yoshino/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #shigeruishiba #tomokoyoshino #dpp #rengo #2025upperhouseelection
Both the policy chiefs of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan have expressed caution over a possible consumption tax cut. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/13/japan/politics/ldp-cdp-cautious-on-tax-cuts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #taxes #ldp #cdp #nipponishinnokai #komeito #dpp
台灣國 
