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...Japan Inc sits on one of the biggest corporate cash piles around....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 5, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Backed by strong public approval ratings, Mr Abe led the LDP to victory in the last six national elections, paving the way for his long reign....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 27, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 20 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on February 19, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“This is a huge, huge win for Japan Inc,” said a consultant to international casino operators....
...Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife, Akie, worked at Dentsu until she married and a number of LDP politicians have the company on their CV....
...Between the LDP’s defeat to the resurgent DPJ in 2009 and its return in 2012, about 10m voters — one-tenth of the electorate — stayed away....
...The LDP, meanwhile, has not dipped below 34 per cent....
...out “spadework” for an idea which was set out in the second round of the Cabinet’s official growth strategy in June, seeking support for the proposal among the economics and agriculture divisions of the LDP...
...An LDP spokesperson confirmed that a working group had been assembled to discuss reforms to consumer-finance laws, but that the precise agenda had yet to be set....
...The LDP’s 2012 election manifesto promised to make the decision on whether to restart reactors within three years, and to establish the “best possible” combination of power sources within 10 years....
...Shake up the banks, and you shake up Japan Inc....
...The long-ruling LDP had itself kept JAL afloat for years with a string of costly but ineffective support measures....
...The LDP group may also push for a change in the regulatory framework surrounding “captive” lending, so that banks and their consumer-credit providers are both overseen by the FSA....
...Yasuhisa Shiozaki, a senior LDP politician and former chief cabinet secretary, says the government might end up taking clearer control – either of Tepco itself, the Fukushima site or of all Japanese reactors...
...But turnout was low, as it was in December for the lower-house election that put the LDP in charge....
...Such support meant that, along with coalition partner the New Komeito, the LDP would likely win a majority in the upper house....
...(Financial Times) - Don’t go expecting more strident reforms after an lDP win in Japan’s local elections....
...In Japan, the electoral victory by prime minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP-led coalition government in the upper house of parliament sets the stage for policies to tackle two decades of deflation....
...It is clear that this is not a positive environment for the LDP.”...
...Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP government is expected to win a majority of the seats, with some predicting a landslide victory....
...Shigeki Matsumoto, an analyst at Nomura, said the LDP victory would have more impact on long-term energy policy than on the immediate prospects for restarting idled facilities....
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