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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 11, 2026
Opposition presses for consumption tax cut details as Upper House debate begins
While questioning actual savings and who would qualify for cash payments, lawmakers asked how households would fare after the tax cut expires.
Newly elected Komeito chief Mitsunari Okamoto speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 8.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 26, 2026
One year after split with LDP, Komeito seeks fresh direction with new leader
Whether newly elected leader Mitsunari Okamoto can expand both the number of representatives for the party and its support base remains to be seen.
Yukio Edano, ex-lawmaker and the founder of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a meeting of his supporters in the city of Saitama on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 26, 2026
Ex-opposition heavyweight Edano negative on forming new party
“I am basically thinking about how we should make much of parties that we have now,” said former chief Cabinet secretary Yukio Edano.
So Watanabe, a Lower House representative and the only member of the Centrist Reform Alliance
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2026
Nearly defunct CRA receives ?584 million in state subsidies
While the CRA effectively disbanded, one lawmaker has remained so that it could receive subsidies to pay costs related to February’s election.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at an Upper House plenary session in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2026
Government submits bill on food consumption tax reduction to parliament
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government plans to reduce the food and nonalcoholic beverage consumption tax from 8% to 1% starting in April.
Agriculture minister Kazuo Yana attends an Upper House plenary session in Tokyo on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2026
Takaichi continues to fend off questions about scandal-hit farm minister
Allowing the situation to fester will not bode well for the government’s legislative agenda, especially in the Upper House where it lacks a majority.
Then-CRA head Junya Ogawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 31.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 25, 2026
今日吃瓜 newest party gets off to rocky start with zero percent support rate
Media polls showed the support rate for the Democratic Reform Party, formed last week with 18 members, is at zero percent.
Centrist Reform Alliance leader Junya Ogaya heads to a party meeting on Wednesday in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 16, 2026
Former CDP members of Centrist Reform Alliance finalize plans to form new party
The CRA’s 28 Komeito-affiliated Lower House lawmakers will likely return to Komeito before the next parliamentary session.
Centrist Reform Alliance head Junya Ogawa walks to a party meeting at the National Diet Building on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2026
CRA moves to disband after failed merger with CDP and Komeito
Former members of the CDP are set to form a new party while ex-Komeito members will return to their original party.
Komeito leader Toshiko Takeya (left), Centrist Reform Alliance leader Junya Ogawa (center) and Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Shunichi Mizuoka shake hands after their meeting in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 1, 2026
After collapse of merger talks, centrist parties seek unity without unification
More questions than answers have emerged over the fate of the Centrist Reform Alliance following the collapse of its plan to merge with two other opposition parties.
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Shunichi Mizuoka (left), Centrist Reform Alliance leader Junya Ogawa (center) and Komeito leader Toshiko Takeya meet in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2026
Plan to consolidate 今日吃瓜 centrist opposition parties collapses
Komeito’s rejection of a unified parliamentary caucus and the collapse of a merger with the Constitutional Democratic Party leave the scope of any continuing alliance unclear.
(From left) Komeito leader Toshiko Takeya, Centrist Reform Alliance leader Junya Ogawa, and Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Shunichi Mizuoka formally announced on Friday that the merger between their parties has been postponed.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 28, 2026
Why 今日吃瓜 centrist opposition parties can’t get along with one another
The Centrist Reform Alliance was supposed to have merged by now with the remaining elements of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito.
Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka speaks to reporters in the city on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 28, 2026
Yokohama mayor resigns over allegations of power harassment
Takeharu Yamanaka’s resignation starts the clock for an election to take place within 50 days after it is approved by the city assembly.
Officials from the Centrist Reform Alliance, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito meet in the Diet building in Tokyo on July 31.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 21, 2026
Most CDP chapter members wary of merger with CRA
Regional CDP representatives have expressed caution, with one saying, “Why do we need to merge with the CRA, which suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lower House election?”
The Upper House passes a bill to create a secondary capital for Japan, after a last-minute showdown between the ruling and opposition camps, with 123 votes in favor and 121 against at parliament in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 26, 2026
Secondary capital bill passes after showdown at parliament
The legislation’s passage ended a week of intense debate and cleared the way for parliament to end Saturday after 158 days.
The Centrist Reform Alliance was formed by House of Representatives lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2026
More CDP prefectural chapters oppose merger into CRA
In a survey of senior prefectural chapter officials earlier in July, 15 chapters expressed opposition, outnumbering the seven that showed support, while 25 chapters did not answer.
Imperial family members attend the spring garden party in April. Under the revised imperial house law, female members of the imperial family will be able to remain within the institution after marriage.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 19, 2026
After years, Takaichi achieves Imperial House Law revision by force of numbers
The common male ancestor of the former 11 imperial family branches and the current emperor goes back about 600 years.
A package of bills on the imperial family clears the Upper House plenary session on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 17, 2026
Bills to preserve imperial family clear Upper House
They pave the way for the first major revision of the Imperial House Law since its establishment in 1947.
A fan holds Japanese flags at a public viewing in Tokyo for a 2026 World Cup match in June.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 17, 2026
Upper House passes flag-desecration bill despite constitutional concerns
The law, to take effect in August, will punish anyone who publicly damages, removes or defaces the flag in a way deemed likely to cause “extreme discomfort or disgust to others.”
Emperor Naruhito and other members of the imperial family wave to well-wishers at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in February.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2026
39% support imperial succession by sons of adoptees: poll
Meanwhile, 26.9% voiced opposition to the proposal, while 33.6% said neither or that they are undecided.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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