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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C) attends a Cabinet meeting at her office in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2026, as a special parliamentary session convenes following the Feb. 8 general election.

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Special Diet session to select new Japan PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2024, with his Cabinet set to resign en masse ahead of a special parliamentary session to select a new prime minister following a general election in October.

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Special Diet session to select new Japan PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba prepares to attend a Cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2024, with his Cabinet set to resign en masse ahead of a special parliamentary session to select a new prime minister following the general election in October.

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Special Diet session to select new Japan PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) prepares to attend a Cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2024, with his Cabinet set to resign en masse ahead of a special parliamentary session to select a new prime minister following the general election in October.

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Special Diet session to select new Japan PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) prepares to attend a Cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2024, with his Cabinet set to resign en masse ahead of a special parliamentary session to select a new prime minister following the general election in October.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida's Cabinet

Diet affairs chief Jun Azumi (C, R) of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan submits a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet to House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga (C, L) at the parliament building in Tokyo on June 20, 2024.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida's Cabinet

Diet affairs chief Jun Azumi (C, R) of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan submits a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet to House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga (C, L) at the parliament building in Tokyo on June 20, 2024.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida's Cabinet

Diet affairs chief Jun Azumi and other executives of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan meet the press at the parliament building in Tokyo on June 20, 2024, after the main opposition party submitted a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet over the enactment of a revised political funds control law which has been criticized for failing to improve financial transparency in politics.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida's Cabinet

Jun Azumi, Diet affairs chief of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, meets the press at the parliament building in Tokyo on June 20, 2024, after the main opposition party submitted a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet over the enactment of a revised political funds control law which has been criticized for failing to improve financial transparency in politics.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida Cabinet voted down in Diet

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) bows in parliament in Tokyo on June 16, 2023, after the House of Representatives voted down a no-confidence motion submitted by the main opposition party against his Cabinet at a plenary session.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida Cabinet voted down in Diet

Photo taken on June 16, 2023, shows a plenary session of Japan's House of Representatives in Tokyo. The lower house voted down the same day a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida submitted by the main opposition party.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida Cabinet voted down in Diet

Photo taken on June 16, 2023, shows a plenary session of Japan's House of Representatives in Tokyo. The lower house voted down the same day a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida submitted by the main opposition party.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida Cabinet voted down in Diet

Photo taken on June 16, 2023, shows a plenary session of Japan's House of Representatives in Tokyo. The lower house voted down the same day a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida submitted by the main opposition party.

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Japan PM rules out lower house dissolution during Diet session

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at his office in Tokyo on June 15, 2023. He ruled out dissolving the lower house during the ongoing Diet session through June 21, after an opposition party expressed eagerness to submit a no-confidence motion against his Cabinet.

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Obuchi to retain Diet seat

TAKASAKI, Japan - Scandal-hit former trade minister Yuko Obuchi, a candidate of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the lower house election, smiles during an interview in her electoral district in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture after securing victory in the election on the night of Dec. 14, 2014. Obuchi, the daughter of the late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, resigned from the Cabinet post in October less than two months after assuming it over dubious political funds reports.

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Citizens protest Cabinet decision on collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Citizens gather around the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2014, to protest the Cabinet decision to enable Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense.

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Protests over security policy change

TOKYO, Japan - People demonstrate in front of the Diet building (back) in Tokyo on July 13, 2014, against the Cabinet's recent approval for reinterpreting the Constitution to enable the Self-Defense Forces to defend allies under attack in collective self-defense.

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People stage rally against security policy change

TOKYO, Japan - People demonstrate in front of the Diet building (back) in Tokyo on July 13, 2014, in protest against the Japanese Cabinet's recent decision to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense.

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People protest against security policy change

TOKYO, Japan - People demonstrate in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 13, 2014, in protest against the Japanese Cabinet's recent decision to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense.

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Protest against collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - People walk in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on June 17, 2014, after a rally in Hibiya Park to protest against Cabinet approval for exercising the right to collective self-defense.

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Lower house passes secrecy bill

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) and members of his Cabinet applaud after the House of Representatives passes a controversial bill to toughen penalties for leakers of state secrets at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2013.

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Lower house passes secrecy bill

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R, top) and members of his Cabinet applaud after the House of Representatives passes a controversial bill to toughen penalties for leakers of state secrets at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2013.

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Diet committee OKs bill to launch U.S.-style NSC

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga bows in appreciation after the House of Representatives' Special Committee on National Security approved a bill to set up a U.S.-style National Security Council, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013.

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Official abuses citizens groups on Twitter

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga tells a press conference on June 13, 2013, that reconstruction minister Takumi Nemoto is expected to take punitive action against Yasuhisa Mizuno, a senior official of the Reconstruction Agency which deals with the rebuilding of areas damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, after revelations that Mizuno abused citizens groups and Diet members via the online social networking site Twitter.

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Diet approves BOJ chief Kuroda's reappointment

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) and members of his Cabinet applaud at a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on April 5, 2013, after the lower house approved the government's reappointment of Bank of Japan chief Haruhiko Kuroda for a five-year term after he serves the remainder of his predecessor's tenure.

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Abe elected as Japan's new premier

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe waves at reporters upon arrival at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2012, to form his Cabinet after being elected as Japan's new prime minister by the Diet.

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Abe elected as Japan's new premier

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe waves at reporters upon arrival at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2012, to form his Cabinet after being elected as Japan's new prime minister by the Diet.

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Japan to streamline Cabinet support agencies

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) National Policy Minister Seiji Maehara, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada attend a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2012. The Japanese government decided to streamline two Cabinet support agencies and allow them to respond more flexibly and strategically to major issues, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said.

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3 lawmakers leaving DPJ to join Hashimoto's new party

TOKYO, Japan - Three lawmakers from the Democratic Party of Japan -- Yorihisa Matsuno (2nd from L), a former deputy chief Cabinet secretary and a House of Representatives member, Takashi Ishizeki (far R), also a lower house member, and Masashi Mito (C), a House of Councillors member -- carry their letters of resignation which they handed to DPJ Acting Secretary General Shinji Tarutoko at the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2012. They are among seven lawmakers planning to join a new political party to be set up soon by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto.

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Gov't proposes Tanaka as new nuclear regulatory body chief

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (2nd from R) attends a meeting at the Diet building in Tokyo on July 26, 2012. The government proposed to the Diet that Shunichi Tanaka, an expert in radiation physics, be appointed to head the new nuclear regulatory authority it is aiming to launch in early September.

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Opposition boycotts Diet

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Councillors committee on economy and industry waits for the opening of a session at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 19, 2012. Photo shows vacant seats as committee members from the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party boycotted Diet deliberations after censure motions against two Cabinet ministers were submitted to the upper house the previous day. At front R is Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano.

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PNP sacks party head, policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on the evening of April 5, 2012 concerning his dismissal as chief of the People's New Party. The junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan decided the same day to dismiss its chief Kamei and policy chief Akiko Kamei. The decision comes after the two asserted the PNP should leave the ruling coalition after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda decided to submit legislation to the Diet to double the sales tax in coming years.

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AIJ raided over missing pension funds

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi (front) speaks during a press conference after a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on March 23, 2012. He said that AIJ Investment Advisors Co. has been stripped of its registration as an investment adviser. The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission raided AIJ's head office among other locations the same day over missing pension funds under the firm's care.

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Moment of silence at parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L front) and members of his Cabinet observe a moment of silence at the start of a parliamentary session in the Diet in Tokyo on March 9, 2012, ahead of the first anniversary two days later of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Okinawa Gov. Nakaima in Diet building

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima answers questions from reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012, after meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and members of his Cabinet to listen to the central government's plan for legal revisions aimed at promoting economic development in Okinawa.

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Noda eyes DPJ Okada as deputy prime minister

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuya Okada, former secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, leaves a Diet facility in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2012. A senior party lawmaker said the same day that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has sounded out Okada, who now heads the party's administrative reform panel, about joining his Cabinet as deputy prime minister when the premier reshuffles it.

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Cabinet ministers Ichikawa, Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue. They were at a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against them to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Censure motions against 2 of Noda Cabinet members

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against two of his Cabinet members -- Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa and consumer affairs minister Kenji Yamaoka -- to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Consumer minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Kenji Yamaoka heads to a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against Yamaoka, who also serves as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, and against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Censure motions against 2 Cabinet members

TOKYO, Japan - Upper house Diet affairs chiefs Masashi Waki (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Yuichiro Uozumi (C) of the New Komeito party, submit censure motions against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, to Masafumi Hashimoto, secretary general of the upper house, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2011.

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Defense Minister Ichikawa

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa is pictured in the Diet building in Tokyo after attending a Cabinet meeting on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against Ichikawa and another Cabinet member, Kenji Yamaoka, to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Lower house approves 3rd extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (far R) and members of his Cabinet bow in the House of Representatives in the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2011, after Japan's third extra budget for fiscal 2011 cleared the lower house. The budget is designed to finance additional work to rebuild the country's northeastern areas in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan OKs plan to send ground troop mission to S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) attends a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2011. The Japanese government approved the dispatch of a Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit to South Sudan to join U.N. peacekeeping operations and help build infrastructure there.

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Hachiro to be trade minister

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Yoshio Hachiro, former Diet affairs chief of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, who will become trade minister in the new Cabinet under incoming Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Sept. 2, 2011.

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New Finance Minister Azumi

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Jun Azumi, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's former Diet affairs chief, who was named finance minister in the new Cabinet under Prime Minister-elect Yoshihiko Noda on Sept. 2, 2011.

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Saito to be deputy chief Cabinet secretary

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Tsuyoshi Saito, former acting Diet affairs chief of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, who will become one of the deputy chief Cabinet secretaries in the new Cabinet under incoming Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Sept. 2, 2011.

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Yamaoka to head national public safety commission

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Kenji Yamaoka, former Diet affairs chief of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, who will become chairman of the National Public Safety Commission in the new Cabinet under incoming Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Sept. 2, 2011.

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Fujimura to be chief Cabinet secretary

TOKYO, Japan - Osamu Fujimura, deputy secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, heads to a room for DPJ executives in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2011. Incoming Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda selected Fujimura, one of the lawmakers closest to the premier-elect, as chief Cabinet secretary and top government spokesman.

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Hirano to become DPJ Diet affairs chief

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano leaves the Democratic Party of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2011, after holding talks with Yoshihiko Noda, the ruling party's new leader. Noda, who was named prime minister in the Diet the same day, decided to appoint Hirano as the party's Diet affairs chief.

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LDP's Hamada joins Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyuki Hamada, an upper house lawmaker of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, speaks with reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on June 27, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan recruited Hamada into his Cabinet as parliamentary secretary for reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami the same day. Hamada told the LDP the same day that he wants to leave the main opposition party.