Kenta Izumi tried to shed the “whiny” image of his Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan by making 17 policy proposals in the Diet and scrapping parliamentary strategy meetings with other opposition parties.
The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, Komeito, secured a solid majority in the Lower House in the Oct. 31 Lower House election, held for the first time in four years.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose ruling coalition according to media polls is projected to remain in power in the Oct. 31 general election, appears poised to differentiate himself from his predecessor Yoshihide Suga in order to avoid quickly following him out of office.