On Monday, the Sentaku Diet members' league held its inaugural meeting, drawing 107 members from four parties. Sankei provides a handy list of members in this article.Sounding curiously similar to a political party for a nonpartisan political movement, the group announced five goals as its program: (1) detailed electoral manifestos (2) Diet reform, (3) regional …
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The limits of Japan’s bipartisan moment
With diminishing prospects for a general election before July and no signs of another attempt to form an LDP-DPJ grand coalition, Japanese politics appear to have entered a bipartisan phase.The most prominent symbol of this moment is the Sentaku movement, which, according to Yomiuri, may ultimately include between fifty and sixty members of the HR …
Tobias S. Harris 