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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is seeking to steal opposition thunder at this month's general election by mimicking their criticism of predecessor Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics", promising to shrink income gaps and bolster the middle class.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday his plan to create a government agency to better fight infectious diseases has not changed but will come into existence
By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is seeking to steal opposition thunder at this month's general election by mimicking their criticism of predecessor Shinzo Abe's Abenomics , promising to shrink income gaps and bolster the middle class. Kishida, who served as foreign minister under Abe, could help his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) limit losses in the Oct. 31 poll by blurring differences to the opposition by calling for a new capitalism that would spread the benefits of growth. The LDP faces an opposition more united than at any time in nearly a decade and i...
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/JAPAN-REOPENING (ANALYSIS, PIX):ANALYSIS-Lack of vaccination passport, testing threaten Japan's reopening
By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan dissolved its parliament on Thursday, setting the stage for an election at the end of the month that will pit new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida against unpopular opposition in a battle over who can better fix the pandemic-battered economy. Kishida enjoys reasonable public support 11 days into the job, polls show, boding well for his goal of maintaining a lower house majority for his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its Komeito party coalition partner. I want to use the election to tell the people what we're trying to do and what we're aiming for, Ki...