22-day general election campaign expected to start on Oct.19

JCP Chair Shii said, "If the general election campaign period commences on October 19, we will take up that challenge and work hard to achieve a change of government to form a new government composed of united opposition parties."

JCP publishes its gender-equality policies

In the run-up to the general election, JCP Policy Commission Chair Tamura Tomoko at a press conference held in the Diet building released the party's policies for a gender-equal Japan.

JCP agrees with CDPJ to form limited non-cabinet alliance

JCP Chair Shii Kazuo and Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Edano Yukio at a meeting in the Diet building reached an agreement on the two parties’ cooperation in a post-LDP government.