Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and ruling party lawmaker Ryota Takeda frustrated opposition party members by adding nothing new about a funding scandal taken up by the Lower House Deliberative Council on Political Ethics.
Japan's opposition parties on June 14 slammed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a day after he reversed his previous mantra of "not considering" dissolving the lower house "for now."
Japan's opposition parties on Monday banded together against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's plan to raise taxes to cover an increase in defense spending, hoping to leverage public discontent to challenge the move. Ahead of a regular parliamentary session starting this month, the Japanese Communist Party agreed with its larger counterparts…
Japan s internal affairs minister Minoru Terada, a close aide to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, faces growing calls to resign as another political fund scandal involving him emerged.