The survey shows 6 in 10 favor an increase in defense spending, record high approval of the Kishida government, and Japanese softening on wearing masks.
Lower House Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda is denying allegations he made “sexually harassing comments” to female reporters and asked one of them to come to his home late at night.
The Diet has not held a one-on-one debate between party chiefs since the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan got their new leaders, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Kenta Izumi.
The Democratic Party for the People has dealt a blow to the united-opposition strategy of long-time ally the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan ahead of this summer’s Upper House election.