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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will step down in September, ending a three-year term marred by political scandals and paving the way for a new prime minister.
“Politics cannot function without public trust,” Mr Kishida, 67, said in a press conference on Wednesday to announce his decision not to seek re-election as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader.
“I will now focus on supporting the newly elected LDP leader as a rank-and-file member of the party.”
His decision to quit triggers a contest to replace him as president of the party and by extension as the leader of the world’s fourth-biggest economy.
Mr Kishida’s public support has been sliding amid revelations about the LDP’s ties to the controversial Unification Church and political donations made at party fundraising events that went unrecorded.
But he also faced public discontent over the failure of wages to keep track with the rising cost of living as the country finally shook off years of deflationary pressure.
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Kishida Cabinet's approval rating sinks to 15.5%, poll shows
The results marked a new low for the Liberal Democratic Party since it returned to power in December 2012.
Public support for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet stood at 15.5% in July, marking a new low since the Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in December 2012, a Jiji Press opinion poll showed Thursday.
The approval rate fell 0.9 percentage point from June, when the previous low of 16.4% was registered.
The Cabinet disapproval rate was up 1.4 points at 58.4%, while the proportion of respondents who neither supported nor disapproved of the Cabinet came to 26.0%.
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Japan PM fires aide over derogatory LGBT remarks
Masayoshi Arai was dismissed after reportedly saying he would not want to live next to same-sex couples.
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Same sex couples will never be equal to heterosexual couples since they can't not reproduce. We have also seen what legalizing same sex "Marriage" Has lead to in the west.Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has fired a government aide who made derogatory remarks about LGBT couples.
Masayoshi Arai reportedly said he would not want to live next to, or look at, people in same-sex relationships.
Mr Arai also warned that permitting gay marriage in Japan would lead to many abandoning the country.
Mr Kishida said the remarks were "outrageous" and "completely incompatible" with his government's policies.
Japan - a country still largely bound by traditional gender roles and family values - is the only G7 nation that does not recognise same-sex marriage.
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Japan PM Kishida vows to promote women's empowerment, economic independence
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledges to promote the economic independence of women as a core pillar of his "new form of capitalism" policy, saying Japan will step up efforts to advance gender equality and women's empowerment in cooperation with the international community.
Femoids don't deserve special treatment. The "Wage gap" Is a laughable feminist myth. It's just the overall income of both men & women without mentioning the fact that femoids take lower paying less risky jobs themselves hence why they make less money overall.Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday pledged to promote the economic independence of women as a core pillar of his "new form of capitalism" policy, saying Japan will step up efforts to advance gender equality and women's empowerment in cooperation with the international community.
In a speech at an international conference in Tokyo, Kishida cited measures his government is taking, including urging major Japanese companies to address wage gaps between men and women and setting up a system to encourage men to take paternity leave.
Kishida made the pledge as a World Economic Forum report showed Japan ranked 116 among 146 countries in the gender gap rankings this year, the lowest among the Group of Seven industrialized nations.![]()
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Statement by Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio at COP28 World Climate Action Summit | Prime Minister's Office of Japan
Speeches and Statements by the Prime Minister - Prime Minister's Office of Japan
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Good riddance he's gone. Hopefully Turdeau will be next.At COP28, we will conclude the first ever Global Stocktake. However, the world is not yet on the pathway to 1.5 degrees. In order to make a course correction, our action until 2030 is critical.
Achieving the global goal of net-zero by 2050, setting the economy-wide absolute reduction target covering all greenhouse gases and peaking global greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 are all required.
Japan aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 46 percent by 2030, and will continue strenuous efforts in its challenge to meet the lofty goal of cutting its emission by 50 percent. Japan has already achieved a reduction of approximately 20%, Japan’s reduction is on track.
As affirmed at the G7 Hiroshima Summit, it is time for all countries to aim to achieve the common goal of net-zero, through various pathways that are compatible with economic growth and energy security. Let us all do so together.
Japan will implement its growth-oriented carbon pricing concept based on the GX Promotion Act. Next year, we will issue the world's first national transition bond with international certification. We will accelerate GX, which simultaneously achieves the three goals of emission reduction, stable energy supply, and economic growth, thereby contributing to global decarbonization. In Asia, we are working with countries under the framework of the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) and will hold our first leaders meeting this month.
Japan will implement thorough energy conservation, and intends to achieve maximum deployment of clean energy through making renewable energy as the main source of power, utilizing nuclear power and other measures. We have a proven record as the world's third largestsolar energy provider. In this context, Japan endorses the Presidency's collective goal of tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements.
At the same time, we aim to create globally a just and sustainable business environment to diversify the clean energy supply chain.
On unabated coal power plants, they should be addressed by each country in the course of the respective pathways to net-zero, reflecting national circumstances. In line with its pathway to net-zero, Japan will end new construction of domestic unabated coal power plants, while securing a stable energy supply.
Our commitment to mobilize up to approximately $70 billion USD climate finance from both public and private is also on track.
Further, Japan is ready to contribute to the expansion of lending capacity totaling approximately $9 billion USD through the provision of credit enhancements to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. We will also make contributions to the new fund of the African Development Bank.
Japan will dedicate itself to undertaking actions on climate change which is our common agenda in cooperation with other countries and leading the efforts of the international community.
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