Tokyo has not publicly announced its intentions to bid on one of Japan’s three forthcoming integrated casino resort licenses. After Sunday’s Metropolitan Assembly election, the odds of the country’s capital city entering the commercial gaming race only lengthened.
A man in Tokyo walks past a poster board displaying candidates for the city’s Metropolitan Assembly election on Sunday, July 4. Japan’s controlling Liberal Democratic Party lost seats, possibly suggesting growing opposition to casinos. (Image:
Reuters)
During Sunday’s city assembly election, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) the controlling party in Japan’s National Diet legislature and the party of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga won just 33 seats of the 127-seat assembly. Its sister party, the Komeito, won 23 seats. Together, the alliance failed to win a majority power position in the assembly.
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JCP chief Kazuo Shii criticised the Chinese Communist Party as it marked the centenary of its founding.
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The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) has doubled down on its efforts to distance itself from its erstwhile ideological ally in Beijing, refusing to congratulate the Chinese Communist Party on the centenary of its founding on July 1. Instead, JCP chairman Kazuo Shii used the anniversary to lambast China’s government in a series of tweets.
He cited Beijing’s “aggressive” territorial claims and described its treatment of Hong Kong and the Uygur Muslim minority in its westernmost province of Xinjiang as “human rights violations”.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets reporters at the prime minister s office on July 5 after his Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, failed to win a combined majority in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election on July 4. (The Asahi Shimbun)
In the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election on July 4, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which suffered a historic drubbing in the previous poll in the capital, managed to regain its status as the largest bloc in the assembly.
But the LDP failed to achieve its goal of securing a majority with its junior coalition partner, Komeito.
The election outcome should be viewed as a harsh voter verdict on Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s leadership in tackling such key policy challenges as the new coronavirus pandemic and the Tokyo Olympics. Japan is in the grip of another wave of COVID-19 cases less than one month before the start of the Summer Games.
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The Tokyo election is significant as the Japanese capital accounts for 11.1 per cent of the country s population. - Reuters
TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan’s national ruling party but the opposition in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, wrested back the lead in a local election on Sunday (July 4).
But this was not enough for the party to secure a majority in the 127-seat assembly, together with its coalition partner Komeito, in Japan’s most populous and prosperous prefecture.
Sunday s election, which put the spotlight on Covid-19 measures and the looming Olympic Games, is being closely watched, with local media framing it as a prelude to a general election that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga must call by Oct 21.