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Whither the LDP withers
Aso :: Japan | 11 days ago
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What was it that enabled the DPJ to win 308 of 480 seats in the Lower House while dropping the number of LDP seats to only 119? Even as the votes were being counted, Katsuya Okada, then DPJ secretary general and now foreign minister, said, "I believe...
Tags: LDP, Sadakazu Tanigaki, DPJ, Zenko Suzuki, prime minister, Japan, Aso, Politics of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Japan, Taro Aso, Liberal parties, Prime Ministers of Japan, Elections in Japan, Politics
Politics › LDP leader Tanigaki injured in bicycle accident
Tōkyō :: Japan | 18 days ago
Credibility Liberal Democratic Party leader Sadakazu Tanigaki sustained minor injuries Sunday after falling on a bicycle, the party said. Tanigaki, who is known as an avid cyclist, sustained cuts to his face when he bumped into another cyclist and went down on a...
Tags: Sadakazu Tanigaki, LDP, Japan, Tōkyō, Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Politics of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Politics
LDP loss media's fault: Mori
Okinawa :: Japan | 20 days ago
Credibility The long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party's historic defeat in the August general election can in part be blamed on the media and its manipulation of public opinion, LDP heavyweight Yoshiro Mori told The Japan Times in a recent interview. Mori, who served...
Tags: The Japan Times, Yoshiro Mori, Yukio Hatoyama, LDP, Japan, Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture, Nago Okinawa, Ginowan Okinawa, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Politics, Prime Ministers of Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Kyￅﾫshￅﾫ region, Ichirￅﾍ Ozawa, Democratic Party of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Yoshirￅﾍ Mori, Seiji Maehara, Elections in Japan, Liberal parties
Politics › LDP leader criticizes gov't for pursuit of 'socialist' policies
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki on Wednesday criticized Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government for appearing to pursue socialist policies, pledging to confront it in the upcoming Diet session if that is indeed the case. The main...
Tags: democratic parties, Yukio Hatoyama, diet session, DPJ, Democratic Party of Japan, LDP, prime minister
Tanigaki taps Oshima as LDP secretary general
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility New Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki on Tuesday tapped Tadamori Oshima as new secretary general, the main opposition party's No. Shigeru Ishiba as new chairman of the Policy Research Council. To access full stories on Kyodo News English...
Tags: Tadamori Oshima, Sadakazu Tanigaki, secretary generation, LDP, english website, Japan, Tōkyō
LDP seeks moderate road to revival
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility The election of Sadakazu Tanigaki, 64, as the LDP’s new president represents a decisive rejection by its Diet members and local party representatives of the kind of dramatic generational and organisational change of the sort promoted by his two younger...
Tokyo readies for 2016 Olympic pitch
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility If anything can make the busy citizens of Tokyo take notice of their city's bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it's a robot large enough to take on Godzilla. A fitting symbol of the technology for which Japan is famous, the moving, talking 60-foot robot was...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, LDP, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Liberal Democratic Party, Japan, Tōkyō
Can LDP recoup the glory days?
Aso :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility No, because even before the election campaign started, the party was beset by internal chaos and complacency. Can the LDP recover from this defeat and once again become a viable force to challenge the DPJ? The answer is yes, but only if it can find a...
Politics › Hatoyama instructs vice ministers to end regular press conferences
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told administrative vice ministers Friday to stop holding regular press conferences, saying their superiors should carry out the task instead. ‘‘It is natural in any private firm for top officials to make decisions and make...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Japan Post Group, Japan Post Holdings Co., Yukio Hatoyama, Hatoyama Updated, prime minister, press conferences, minister yukio, Katsuya Okada, LDP, Japan, Tōkyō
Asahi Shimbun, Japan: LDP's Eto to take key Lower House post
Asahi :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility Seishiro Eto of the Liberal Democratic Party has been nominated to serve as vice speaker of the Lower House, party sources said Monday. Eto is expected to be voted in at the start of Wednesday's special Diet session along with Takahiro Yokomichi of the...
Tags: Asahi Shimbun, ASAHI SHIMBUN, Lower House, Democratic Party of Japan, LDP, Japan, Asahi
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