Japan's incoming PM Ishiba announces snap October election

Japan's next general election is set to take place a year early. Incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he would call for snap polls on 27 Oct. Next month's vote will decide which party controls the Lower House. The Upper House will continue its term until July 2025 as it cannot be dissolved. Both houses are controlled by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito. Mr Ishiba has picked several names for his upcoming cabinet team, who will lead the LDP into the election. The newly elected leader is leaning on veterans in a bid to unite a deeply divided party. Michiyo Ishida reports.

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In his Hudson paper, Ishiba, who has a reputation as a troublemaker in the LDP, also said Japan's military alliance with the U.S. could be revised to allow Tokyo to station troops in Guam, a U.S. territory, for the first time since 1944.

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Mr Ishiba will help create Asia NATO to deter Chinese aggression.

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门阀！
Singapore is evolving into this social structure as well. It's meritocracy, it can't be helped.
Only Chinese know Japan still need many centuries to evolve.

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🤣Shigeru Ishiba, proposes creating an 'Asian NATO' and stationing Japanese troops on U$ soil to counter China's military rise.
His ideas have faced skepticism from Washington but aim to strengthen regional security through existing alliances like the Quad and AUKUS.

The NATO idea, however, has already been rejected by Washington, with Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, dismissing it as hasty.

Ishiba, however, doubled down on his idea on Friday, telling a press conference that "the relative decline of U.S. might" made an Asian treaty organisation necessary.

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😅Ishiba Proposes Sharing of U$ Nuclear Weapons in Asia

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Ishiba will be short-lived government, because Japan stock market was dropped and many people are disappointed Ishiba.