LDP to strip lawmaker of party position after anti-media meeting

Minoru Kihara, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, meets the press in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, on June 27, 2015. Kihara, who serves as director of the LDP's Youth Division, recently directed a party meeting where participants purportedly blamed the media for the public's reservations about contentious national security legislation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000071903

Registered date
2015/6/27 17:53:20

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
2374 × 3676 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
839.00(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Former education minister Shimomura

Veteran House of Representatives lawmaker and former education minister Hakubun Shimomura is pictured before attending a General Council meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on April 24, 2018. Shimomura came under fire after saying it was "a crime in a sense" for a news reporter to record a top bureaucrat allegedly making sexually suggestive remarks and to hand over the recording to a magazine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

LDP resumes talks on constitutional change after election win

Hiroyuki Hosoda, a veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker who heads the party's panel promoting constitutional reform, speaks at its meeting which was resumed in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017 following his party's major victory in the Oct. 22 House of Representatives election. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who heads the LDP, is eager to revise the Constitution while he is in office, particularly the war-renouncing Article 9, a major topic taken up during the day's discussion by the LDP panel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Komeito member quits parliament over misuse of lawmakers' housing

Hiroaki Nagasawa, a senior vice minister in the Reconstruction Agency and Komeito party lawmaker, speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2017, after submitting a letter of resignation as a House of Councillors member. Nagasawa also left the party, the junior ruling coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party, the same day after it was revealed he allowed a female acquaintance to stay in a housing complex for lawmakers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Komeito member to quit parliament over misuse of lawmakers' housing

Undated photo shows Hiroaki Nagasawa, a House of Councillors lawmaker of the Komeito party, a coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Nagasawa will give up his Diet seat and a post as a senior vice minister of the Reconstruction Agency for letting a female acquaintance stay at a housing complex for lawmakers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Abe tells LDP meeting Japan's lower house to be dissolved Thurs.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends an ad hoc meeting with senior members of his Liberal Democratic Party at its headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2017. Abe told the meeting he will dissolve the House of Representatives when it convenes Sept. 28, paving the way for a general election expected in late October. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Abe eyes early lower house dissolution: Nikai

Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2017. Nikai revealed that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering an early dissolution of the House of Representatives for a general election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan asks U.N. disarmament forum to take up N. Korea abduction issue

Minoru Kiuchi (C), chairman of Japan's House of Representatives special committee on North Korean abductions, Yasuhide Nakayama (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Eiichiro Washio of the Democratic Party attend a press conference in Geneva on Aug. 30, 2017. The three lawmakers requested that the U.N. Conference on Disarmament also take up the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s as the forum works to address Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Assembly member may have misused public funds in lawmaker's campaign

Ken Hashimoto, a member of the Kobe municipal assembly from the Liberal Democratic Party, meets the press at the Kobe city hall in western Japan on July 27, 2017, following reports that the 37-year-old married man has been having an affair with Eriko Imai, an LDP member of the House of Councillors. Hashimoto said his marriage had already broken down, so he thought he could have a romantic relationship with the 33-year-old single mother. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese lawmaker Imai reportedly having affair with local assemblyman

Eriko Imai, a member of the House of Councillors from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, bows in apology while meeting the press at the party headquarters in Tokyo on July 27, 2017, following reports that the 33-year-old single mother, a former member of the female vocal-dance group SPEED, has been having an affair with a 37-year-old married man, who is an LDP member of the Kobe municipal assembly. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese lawmaker Imai reportedly having affair with local assemblyman

Eriko Imai, a member of the House of Councillors from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, meets the press at the party headquarters in Tokyo on July 27, 2017, following reports that the 33-year-old single mother, a former member of the female vocal-dance group SPEED, has been having an affair with a 37-year-old married man, who is an LDP member of the Kobe municipal assembly. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo