Editorial

15:12 JST, November 14, 2025

The Liberal Democratic Party is now a minority ruling party in both houses of the Diet, with the nation’s first female prime minister, upon whom the party’s fate rests, taking the lead in responses during deliberations. Meanwhile, the rise of new political forces has intensified multiparty politics.

This Diet session was supposed to become a model for debates in a new era, reflecting diverse public opinion.

However, the crucial content of deliberations still prominently features opposition parties nitpicking the responses of the government side. Outdated procedures also remain unchanged, in which the prime minister and bureaucrats have to devote enormous effort to preparing written responses.

Both the content of the deliberations and the way the Diet is managed need to be reviewed.

On the first day of the........

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