Japan's upper house election seems set to rehash a decades-old debate on consumption tax, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.

Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)--Yoshihiko Noda, head of the leading opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, has proposed that the Imperial House Council decide whether to allow husbands ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, center right, answers questions from Yoshihiko Noda, center left, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, during a parliamentary debate in Tokyo on ...

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan chief Yoshihiko Noda heads to a meeting with party executives in Tokyo on April 25, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's major opposition party said ...

Tokyo, May 8 (Jiji Press)--Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, on Thursday criticized as "unbelievable" a recent remark by a lawmaker of the ...

CDP leader Yoshihiko Noda told reporters in Sapporo that if the ruling camp does not decide on the consumption tax cut, it will have to become an election issue. "The inaction (of Prime Minister ...

CDP leader Yoshihiko Noda, who served as prime minister with the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan, is calling for a strategy toward the U.S. that emphasizes Japan’s commitment to ...

CDP President Yoshihiko Noda announced the policy on April 25 as a means for the public to weather the increased cost of living and the impact of U.S. tariffs. The exemption may be extended ...

In a parliamentary debate of party leaders on Wednesday, Ishiba, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, made the vow as Yoshihiko Noda, president of the main opposition Constitutional ...

11 percent for CDP head Yoshihiko Noda, and 3 percent for Seiji Maehara, co-representative of the Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin). Forty-nine percent of respondents answered there was no ...

However, in 2024, former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda joined the CDP and quickly became its leader. Back in 2012, Noda presided over a hike in the tax, which led to the crushing defeat of the ...

Indeed, former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, the leader of the biggest opposition party, the Constitutional Democrats, told Ishiba in a Diet debate that it looked like “tribute diplomacy” for ...