In the gloom of a Lower House election post-mortem, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan was forced to ponder whether joining forces with the Japanese Communist Party was the right thing to do.
The widow of a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat who took his own life after he was ordered to falsify documents on Oct. 11 asked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to reopen the probe into the Moritomo Gakuen educational institution scandal.