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Japan ruling coalition eyes cash handout plan amid US tariffs, rising prices • Apr. 11, 2025, 10:12 AM ET (Daily Star)
As gift voucher scandal plagues PM Ishiba, Japan’s ruling LDP faces reckoning • Mar. 29, 2025, 3:43 AM ET (Straits Times)
What is the Unification Church and why did a Japanese court order it dissolved? • Mar. 25, 2025, 4:20 AM ET (AP)

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Also Known As LDP • Jiyū-Minshutō • Liberal Democratic Party
Date 1955 - present
Areas Of Involvement foreign policy • right
Related People Fumio Kishida • Suga Yoshihide • Shigeru Ishiba • Shinzo Abe • Ozawa Ichirō • Ishihara Shintarō • Asō Tarō • Hatoyama Yukio • Hashimoto Ryūtarō • Kishi Nobusuke • Koizumi Junichiro • Satō Eisaku • Nakasone Yasuhiro • Tanaka Kakuei • Hatoyama Ichirō

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