September 22, 2020
The initial approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s Cabinet stood at 74%, the third highest among similar polls taken on the heels of Cabinet inaugurations since 1978. The Yomiuri Shimbu...
The government’s planned digital agency, aimed at centralizing the digitization of administrative services, will not be a permanent organization, according to a high-ranking government official. B...
At the Prime Minister’s Office on Saturday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga recorded a speech for the United Nations General Assembly’s general debate scheduled to start Tuesday. Suga is to express ...
A preparatory office will be established by the end of the month to start setting up the new agency that will unify the digitization of administrative services, Digital Transformation Minister Takuya ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has formed a new Cabinet, succeeding Shinzo Abe, the nation’s longest-serving leader. This is the second installment of a series exploring the domestic and diplomatic i...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday instructed Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda to begin working on lowering mobile phone service fees.
For Suga, who has adopted a motto...
Saturday was the fifth anniversary of the enactment of a set of new security laws. Amid an increasingly severe security environment, including China’s maritime push and North Korea’s nuclear and m...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was in full gear on Thursday, the day after his Cabinet was launched. He met separately with Taro Kono, the minister in charge of administrative and civil service reform,...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has made clear his intentions to continue along the course of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on foreign and security policies. However, Suga’s ability to handle the k...
The government is seeking early implementation of insurance to cover fertility treatments, as proposed by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and plans to greatly increase subsidies for such treatment unti...
The cabinet minister in charge of digital reform on Thursday announced a plan to establish an agency by April 2022 to unify the digitization of administrative services.
“We have to work fast to ge...
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revealed that he considered holding a House of Representatives election on the same day as a House of Councillors election several times during his tenure, and in...
Ministers officially started their work Thursday morning, a day after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga launched his Cabinet.
“I want to launch a cabinet that will work for the people and live up to ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has wasted no time in stamping his own imprint on his new administration, and two key appointments suggest major reforms could be on the way.
Suga, who launched his Cabi...
The ministerial appointments to the new Cabinet formed Wednesday caused an array of reactions among the factions of the Liberal Democratic Party, ranging from delight to grievance. The Cabinet comp...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has appointed new Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato to double as minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea.
This is the second ...
The average age of the new Cabinet — 20 members plus Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga — is 60.38 years, or 1.17 years younger than that of the fourth reshuffled Cabinet of former Prime Minister Shinz...
Then Defense Minister Taro Kono issued his first ministerial instructions on Monday in relation to the sighting of unidentified flying objects: When Self Defense Force personnel encounter a UFO, they ...
Liberal Democratic Party President Yoshihide Suga, 71, was elected as Japan’s new prime minister during the plenary sessions of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors on Wednesday...
As the durable 93-month administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe comes to an end, a new administration led by Yoshihide Suga, who advocates carrying on Abe’s policies, comes into being. Meanwhile...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe effectively named Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga as his successor and guided him to victory in the campaign for president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Aiming t...
The sense of stability that former Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato evokes appears to have been the decisive factor in new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s decision to appoint him as...
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned en masse at an extraordinary Cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning.
Abe ended up holding the prime minister post for 2,822 consecutive days after hi...
Yoshihide Suga’s first morning as president of the Liberal Democratic Party started with his routine of a morning stroll.
Early Tuesday morning, just one day after assuming the new post, the chief...
Liberal Democratic Party President Yoshihide Suga is planning to appoint Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato as chief cabinet secretary after his almost-certain appointment as prime mini...
Kind words and soup curry are among the ways that Mariko Suga, 67, has supported her husband, newly elected Liberal Democratic Party President Yoshihide Suga, 71.
People close to them said that she...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga won a landslide victory in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, with broad support from the local prefectural chapters on top of five factions of ...
A growing number of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers are calling for an early dissolution of the House of Representatives for a general election, in an attempt to benefit from the party’s higher a...
In his position as chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga was a continual supporter of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Although he never once publicly expressed a desire to become prime minister himself, ...
The Liberal Democratic Party elected Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga as its president on Monday.
Suga will be named the prime minister at an extraordinary Diet session to be convened on Sept....
Apparently seeking to walk back an earlier statement, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference Friday, “Prime Minister Abe once said, ‘There is no need to raise the consum...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has stopped short of specifying a new course for the nation’s missile defense policy, leaving discussions to the next cabinet.
Abe released a statement on Friday with r...
The three candidates in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election discussed topics including measures against the novel coronavirus and their ideas of an ideal nation at an open debate Satur...
Short-term business trips between Japan and Singapore are scheduled to resume under certain conditions beginning Sept. 18, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said at a press conference Friday. It will...
Japan and the global community have been beset by crises, such as the novel coronavirus pandemic and friction among major world powers. What qualities should Japan’s leader have now? For the first ...
Tourism minister Kazuyoshi Akaba said Friday that Tokyo will be added to the Go To Travel tourism promotion campaign from Oct. 1, after it was excluded from the program at launch due to the novel coro...
Yukio Edano was elected Thursday as the first leader of a new opposition party, but already a slew of thorny problems are lining up to test his mettle.
Edano comfortably won the vote held to pick t...
Since the approval ratings surged for the Cabinet and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s resignation announcement, there have been growing expectations within ...
The first name of Yukio Edano, the first leader of the new opposition party, comes from Yukio Ozaki, who is referred to as the “God of Constitutional Politics.”
Amid a proliferation of new pol...
Yukio Edano was elected Thursday as the first leader of a new opposition party to be created through the merger of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Democratic Party for the People and...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday he will aim to have health insurance cover infertility treatment if he becomes the next prime minister.
Currently a candidate for president of t...
In the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election campaign that officially kicked off Tuesday, the main issues are economic measures to succeed the Abenomics economic policies and ways to coun...
Japan considers public-private body to eradicate malicious online retailers In an effort to root out malicious online retailers, the government has been considering creating a system to share infor...
The campaign for the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election began Tuesday as three lawmakers filed their candidacies for successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has announced his resi...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga sought balance among the supporters who nominated him to run for president of the Liberal Democratic Party by including lawmakers who were not affiliated with a ...
A book by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga published in 2012 has surged in price since the LDP presidential candidate emerged as a frontrunner in the race to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood at 52% in a Yomiuri Shimbun survey conducted Sept. 4-6, an increase of 15 points from the 37% seen in the previous survey in earl...
Of the three men who have announced they will run in the upcoming election for president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is seen as the most suitable candidate ...
Two contenders for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party appeared on NHK on Sunday, stressing their intention to prioritize the increased autonomy of local governnments and the economy.
LDP...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, currently the leading candidate to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party, expressed his desire to reorganize the Health, Labor and Welfare M...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to release a statement on security policy regarding missiles by the end of this week, explaining the government’s intention to make a decision by year-end on whether ...
Ahead of the upcoming Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, contender Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced on Saturday his six key policies which are largely in line with those p...
Eyeing the LDP presidential election on Sept 14, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, LDP Policy Research Council Chairman Fumio Kishida and former LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba appeared on ...
The three candidates in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election are scrambling to win votes allocated to local party organizations in each prefecture. According to a survey conducted by Th...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has a wide lead before the ruling Liberal Democratic Party presidential election. According to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey of 394 LDP lawmakers, Suga has secured a...
Policy debates have begun among the three candidates who have officially announced they will run in the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election, in which the winner will become the next Jap...
All 47 prefectural chapters of the Liberal Democratic Party are expected to hold primary elections ahead of the Sept. 14 party presidential election, it has been learned.
A total of 535 votes are bei...
Japan is planning to excuse Olympic and Paralympic teams from the 14-day quarantine period upon entry, as currently required, even if the novel coronavirus situation is not completely resolved, The Yo...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will effectively become the first Liberal Democratic Party president without factional affiliations, if elected.
Top LDP lawmakers generally aspire to the part...
There is a growing trend to allow people to pay taxes to local governments using mobile payment apps. Local governments want to increase the payment rate for taxes such as on automobiles and fixed ass...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was continually labeled a hawk or rightist, but the opposition parties’ dealings with Abe are a good indication of whether he actually was one.
In 2015, Katsuya Okada, t...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga officially announced his candidacy for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election on Wednesday evening. The election will choose the successor to Prime M...
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Seiko Noda, a former internal affairs and communications minister, told reporters on Tuesday that she would not run in the LDP’s upcoming presidential election, wh...
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Democratic Party for the People and others involved decided Tuesday to hold an election for the leader of a new merged party on Sept. 10, with campaig...
Aug. 24 marked the 2,799th day of the current administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, making him Japan’s longest continuously serving prime minister. The Yomiuri Shimbun is looking back on the ...
Outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his gratitude to world leaders on Twitter, including U.S. President Donald Trump, with whom he has fostered a friendship. “Our friendship with th...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided at its general council meeting Tuesday that it will elect its next party leader through a joint plenary meeting of LDP Diet members of both houses, instead ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga plans to officially announce his candidacy for president of the Liberal Democratic Party at a press conference expected to be held on Wednesday, sources said.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday to continue negotiations on the issue of the northern territories and the conclusion of a formal peace treaty. In their 2...
In the wake of Shinzo Abe’s sudden announcement that he will resign as prime minister, the prefectural chapters of the Liberal Democratic Party are closely watching how their party will choose its n...
The Liberal Democratic Party faction led by Taro Aso intends to support Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga in the party presidential election to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, sour...
Shortly after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became Japan’s longest-serving prime minister in the history of the country’s constitutional politics, he announced his intention to step down. While in off...
On the heels of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s resignation announcement, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is laying the groundwork for an extraordinary Diet session to select a new prime minister an...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told senior officials of the Liberal Democratic Party that he intends to run for the party presidency, senior LDP members said Sunday.
Suga met with LDP Secret...
Defense Minister Taro Kono and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper agreed during a recent meeting to cooperate on building a new missile defense system and expressed concern over China’s maritime a...
They say management requires “decisiveness” and “empathy.” The same is probably true for the administration responsible for steering the Japanese economy. Abenomics confronted the economic st...
Maneuvering within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ahead of its presidential election to choose a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also the LDP president, was gaining momentum on Sa...
With the spread of the novel coronavirus now on a downward trend, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he decided to resign from his post as the situation over the virus has reached a turning point. Abe ap...
Ulcerative colitis, the chronic illness from which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suffers, causes inflammation and sores in the lining of the large intestine, leading to blood in the stool, diarrhea and a...
They say that history repeats itself. Unfortunately, that has come true as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to resign because of his worsening chronic illness. Despite his condition, the prime mi...
The government unveiled Friday a policy package to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic that includes plans to secure vaccines for the entire population of Japan by the middle of next year and beef u...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday his intention to step down due to concern over his recurring disease, ulcerative colitis, bringing down the curtain on the nation’s longest administration....
The government intends to soon allow foreign assistant language teachers, and also trainees from developing countries invited by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to enter Japan despi...
A novel coronavirus package of measures focusing on securing vaccines, providing financial support to medical institutions and improving testing systems will be explained by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...
Mos Food Services, Inc., a Tokyo-based company that operates the Mos Burger hamburger chain, is planning to hire hundreds of Vietnamese students under the new residency status known as “specified sk...
To increase the number of Japanese in head posts at 15 important United Nations institutes, the government has decided to centralize personnel planning under the Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs.
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The novel coronavirus pandemic may change the global order. While the United States, with by far the largest number of cases, faces a presidential election in November, China, which seems more success...
Monday marked the 2,799th day of the current administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, making him Japan’s longest continuously serving prime minister. The Yomiuri Shimbun will look back on the p...
Monday marked the 2,799th day of the current administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, making him Japan’s longest continuously serving prime minister. Started in late 2012 with the inauguration...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a hospital again on Monday, which marked his 2,799th straight day in office, making him Japan’s longest-serving prime minister.
Abe, amid mounting concerns over hi...
Shinzo Abe becomes Japan’s longest continuously serving prime minister on Monday, passing Eisaku Sato’s 2,798 straight days in office.
Abe, who is also president of the Liberal Democratic Party,...
Liberal Democratic Party heavyweights are busying themselves with appointments for key party positions coming up in September. The main focus is the selection of the secretary general. The post, which...
Senior government officials in Tokyo have expressed some hope for Joe Biden who emphasized the importance of U.S. allies in his presidential nomination acceptance speech during the Democratic Nationa...
The Liberal Democratic Party’s noble faction led by former LDP General Council Chairman Wataru Takeshita is trying to strengthen unity in an effort to revive the group after a split between its Hou...
The Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces held a series of joint exercises in the East China Sea and other areas between Saturday and Tuesday, apparently aimed at keeping China in check, as the seasonal...
Until the dark clouds looming over the government’s tourism strategy are lifted, the much-heralded development plan for integrated resorts (IRs) including casinos will remain at a standstill.
Bef...
The government intends to cover the losses that drugmakers may suffer due to health problems resulting from vaccines for the novel coronavirus, it has been learned.
A system is being considered to c...
