TOKYO - A ruling party panel on Thursday presented Prime MinisterSanae Takaichi with proposals including a permit system for foreign and Japanese nationals seeking to acquire land near important facilities and on uninhabited border islands ... ....
As a rational for tighter controls, Yoshitaka Shindo, chairman of the LDP’s Headquarters for Foreign Nationals Policy, cited the emergence of “new forms of warfare” around the world, such as drone attacks.
Takaichi has retained many influential figures in key posts in an apparent effort to solidify her power base with an eye to the next LDP leadership election, in which she is expected to seek another term.
I asked a veteran LDP lawmaker what he truly felt after an aide shut the door to his office ... This lawmaker is considered conservative within the LDP so I was somewhat surprised by his words ... the LDP.”.
At a meeting on July 8, Hiroshi Kajiyama, chairman of the LDP’s Diet Affairs Committee, conveyed the ruling bloc’s policy on the two bills to Kazuhiko Shigetoku, his counterpart from the Centrist ...
Parliament has been gridlocked as the CRA, the main opposition in the lower house, and some other parties have refused to discuss the two bills to decrease lower house members and establish a backup capital until the LDP and JIP retract them.