Trump is all but certain to be the Republican nominee in the November election versus US President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party standard-bearer. Trump is already telegraphing that a Trump 2.0 White House would make his previous tenure seem like a minor inconvenience for Beijing. Japan would feel these shock waves early and often as … Read more
The support rate for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet fell 2.8 percentage points to 24.5 per cent, marking its second-lowest rating, a Kyodo News survey showed on Sunday, with most respondents indicating discontent with his fact-finding efforts regarding the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s political funds scandal. Some 84.9 per cent said LDP lawmakers who … Read more
Local reports claim the group amassed some 500 million yen in a secret slush fund, and virtually every member has been implicated, with some political pundits suggesting it could even “collapse” under the weight of the bad publicity. Kishida has launched a task force to tackle the scandal in an attempt to restore support for … Read more
Prosecutors have started questioning Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers on a voluntary basis in connection with a political fund scandal involving the LDP’s largest faction, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday. Several dozen lawmakers of the faction are targeted for questioning amid allegations that the group failed to declare hundreds of millions … Read more
