The LDP party congress on Sunday also passed its 2017 action plan, which laid bare its plan "to speed up discussions on constitutional amendment in the parliament and to show the people the roadmap of changing the constitution." "The LDP shall lead the specific discussions on ...
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Japan's largest opposition party, submitted a no-confidence motion against the cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday. 单词整理: opposition/ˌɑːpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n/反对党,在野党( the Opposition); submit/səbˈmɪt/呈递...
Meanwhile, after Abe was shot dead, the cohesion within the LDP has come into question, thus affecting the party's agenda of constitutional amendment. In addition, a significant number of Japanese people remain skeptical and opposed to constitutional amendment. Some Japanese media pointed out that ...
TOKYO, May 12 (Xinhua) -- "The new security laws are in violation of the pacifist constitution. They and Abe's attempts to amend the constitution, could see Japan return to militarism and are absolutely unacceptable to the people," said constitutional scholar Makoto Ito in a recent interview ...
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, led by centrist leader Yoshihiko Noda, made huge gains to 148 seats, from its previous 98. “We accomplished our goal of preventing the ruling coalition from a majority, which was a major achievement,” Noda said. ...
Hagstrom, Linus. 2010. "The Democratic Party of Japan's security policy and Japanese politics of constitutional revision: a cloud over Article 9?" Australian Journal of International Affairs. 64 (May): 510-525.Linus Hagstrom, `The Democratic Party of Japan's security policy and Japanese ...
The proposal, to be submitted to the parliament by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) on Thursday, suggests that legacy assets as a result of the central bank's unconventional monetary measures could be the subject of political wrangling. The BOJ formally decid...
20 -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) approved Wednesday an interim report summarizing its arguments over constitutional reform, marking another step towards the first-ever amendment to the pacifist postwar constitution. According to the interim report, the LDP members all share the ...
While support for the LDP is numerically steady ahead of the upper house election in July, recent LDP-linked scandals may have impacted results in some key constituencies, while the main opposition party fared better than expected. The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan secured 31 more seats...
the public's consternation regarding Abe, an unabashed ultra-right wing proponent with a carefully crafted yet growing tenor as an autocrat, and his obdurate political compass, which is manifestly, as other political pundits consistently attest, firmly facing towards constitutional amendment and ...