Ruling bloc loses lower house majority Japan's top news story of 2024

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- Dec 20, 2024 - 20:31 All,Japan

File photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaking to the media at the headquarters of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2024, with the party set to lose its majority in the House of Representatives following a general election. (Kyodo)

File photo shows the aftermath of a fire that engulfed the center of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2024, after the region was hit by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day. (Kyodo)

File photo shows (from R) Toshiyuki Mimaki, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Terumi Tanaka, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, during the award ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10, 2024. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a press conference at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2024, announcing his decision not to run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Iwao Hakamata making his first public appearance in the city of Shizuoka on Sept. 29, 2024, after being acquitted in a retrial decades after he was sentenced to death over a 1966 quadruple murder. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito waving to supporters in Kobe after securing reelection in the Hyogo gubernatorial election on Nov. 17, 2024, held after he lost his position over power abuse accusations. (Kyodo)

File photo shows a bathing beach closed in Nichinan in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 10, 2024, after Japan's weather agency issued its first-ever advisory on a higher-than-usual probability of a megaquake around the Nankai Trough, following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit the region. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda at a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on March 19, 2024, after the BOJ decided to end its negative interest rate policy at a two-day board meeting. (Kyodo)

File photo shows a house in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, where a man was found dead and his belongings ransacked, amid a spate of robberies in which perpetrators were recruited online to take part in "dark part-time work." (Kyodo)

File photo taken Jan. 2, 2024, shows a Japan Airlines plane engulfed in flames on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport. (Kyodo)

The ruling coalition losing its majority in Japan's House of Representatives election has been selected as the top domestic news story of 2024 by senior editors of Kyodo News and its member or subscriber newspapers and broadcasters.(1) Japan's ruling bloc loses lower house majorityJapan's ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party lost its majority in the lower house election in October, dealing a heavy blow to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.The ruling bloc is seeking policy-by-policy deals with the Democratic Party for the People, which saw its seats in the 465-m…READ FULL ARTICLE

Ruling bloc loses lower house majority Japan's top news story of 2024

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