FOCUS: A year on, Japan's ruling coalition faces test of durability

A flagship political reform bill championed by the Japan Innovation Party is poised to test the JIP's year-old coalition with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party, with its passage through parliament far from assured despite backing from the premier.The bill could cut 45 seats in the 465-seat House of Representatives, Japan's lower house, but it has come under a sustained pushback from opposition parties whose support Takaichi may need for separate legislation to cut the consumption tax. She has promised to honor the coalition agreement to pass it, aiming to do so in the…READ FULL ARTICLE