Key Highlights
- The day before yesterday, we had a brief private conversation.
- The prime minister didn’t mention a specific timeframe for dissolving parliament at the very beginning of the year, but there was a moment in our conversation when we mentioned that ‘the scene has changed,’ so I’m not surprised by media reports [about a possible dissolution],” Yoshimura said, speaking live on the NHK broadcaster.
- The dissolution of parliament by Takaichi this year was expected, but if it happens, “it will be faster than I thought,” Yoshihiko Noda, the leader of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, told NHK.
- Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister and formed her cabinet on October 21 last year.
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