Official campaigning for four lower house by-elections starts across Japan, after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ruling Liberal Democratic Party won a number of key gubernatorial races over the weekend.
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.
A small Japanese opposition party appears to be going all out for its survival beyond a key election this summer, raising the possibility that it could become a dynamo for change in the country s political landscape.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida safely navigated a general election in 2021 as new leader of Japan s ruling party, but when he faces voters again in the 2022 upper house election, he is likely to be judg