The government has decided to conduct a blanket survey of all 18- and 19-year-olds to check their voting rate in House of Councilors election on Sunday, a source in the internal affairs ministry said. The survey will cover all 2.4 million teenagers now eligible to ...
Ruling bloc may push emergency powers amendment to Constitution after Sunday's poll
The ruling coalition claims that the time is not right to discuss a revision but many people are unconvinced.
The support rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party stood at 33.5 percent, up 2.6 percentage points from the previous poll conducted immediately after official campaigning kicked off last month for the July 10 House of Councilors election, a survey showed Wednesday. Meanwhile, ...
LDP vice president says 'zero possibility' Abe will revise Article 9 after Upper House poll win
Masahiko Komura says a victory in Sunday’s election will not lead to a change in the Constitution’s war-renouncing Article 9.
A ruling bloc win in Sunday's poll puts Constitution in crosshairs
Keiko Hirai was surprised to see a letter addressed to her and her husband from the Self-Defense Forces, urging their 15-year-old son to enroll in a special high school run by the Ground Self-Defense Force after graduating from junior high. Wondering how the SDF obtained ...
Sunday's election likely to result in majority needed for constitutional revision: poll
Sunday's election may put Japan in a position to rewrite its Constitution, as lawmakers who support revising the contentious document are likely to win the required two-thirds majority in the Upper House, a Kyodo News survey has found. Released Tuesday, the survey showed Prime Minister ...
The nation's major political parties have kicked off their official House of Councilors election campaigns, with the ruling bloc and a united opposition giving speeches centered on the economy around the country.
1957 Sunagawa base incident puts spotlight on new security laws
Former activists petitioning for a retrial after they were fined for unlawfully entering a U.S. military base in Tokyo nearly 60 years ago find their case in the spotlight once again.
Much at stake in this election
If voters do not wish to give the Abe administration a carte blanche to revise the Constitution, they must express their intention in this election.
Outspoken anti-war mom causes buzz, says GSDF soldier son was told to steer clear of her
A woman whose son is serving with the Self-Defense Forces is a tireless campaigner against recently enacted security legislation, and she is no less vocal now that an Upper House election is approaching. The resident of the Hokkaido city of Chitose is in her 50s ...
DP's Okada warns Abe is distracting voters from his goal to rewrite Constitution
A strong victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in next month's Upper House election would spell an end to postwar pacifism and "completely change the way Japan is," according to Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada. "I have an extremely strong sense of ...
