Takaichi Gets Closer to Prime Minister
The Liberal Democratic party (LDP) and Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin-no Kai) reached a basic agreement in policies that Ishin hopes to implement through bilateral cooperation with the LDP. Although it had been pushing some policies which the LDP seemed to be hard to accept, Ishin suddenly changed the condition for cooperation with the LDP. Consequently, the President of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Sanae Takaichi, is likely to be elected the prime minister with support from LDP and Ishin. When the two parties started policy talk on October 16 th , Ishin raised 12 policies to be implemented when Ishin would cooperate with the LDP, which meant voting for Takaichi in the Diet for prime minister and possibly formulating a leading coalition with Takaichi administration. Those policies included zero percent of consumption tax, reduction of payment of working agers for social insurance, amendment of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan or prohibition of political...