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Liberal Democratic, Japan Innovation Parties Form Coalition for Takaichi

Takaichi Sanae, head of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Yoshimura Hirofumi, representative of the Japan ...

Japan’s first female PM appoints just two women to her cabinet

Ms Takaichi, an ultra-conservative who on Tuesday became Japan’s first female prime minister, had promised to model her ...

Japan's Ishin party joins political establishment it vowed to fight

Formed in 2010 to shake up Japan's political establishment and loosen Tokyo's administrative stranglehold, the Japan ...
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Japan ruling party proposes higher departure tax for int'l travelers

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday called for hiking the departure tax from the current 1,000 yen ($7) per ...

LDP-Japan Innovation Party marriage of convenience may face rocky future

Following the historic coalition deal between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party, unease is growing within b ...

Japan's Takaichi woos right-leaning party to secure premiership

Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, held talks about a possible coalition with ...