Performing arts still face hardship caused by COVID-19

As the performing arts industry, especially theater companies, is facing severe financial conditions, injection of public money is necessary to help them continue sustainably with their work.

Koike: Probe deeper into Abe family's half-century-long tie with Moon cult

JCP Secretariat Head Koike demanded a thorough probe into the Abe family's links to the Unification Church, following a Mainichi Shimbun scoop which revealed that the Moonies founder had instructed his believers to forge closer links with pro-Abe Japanese parliamentarians.

JCP criticizes ex-CDPJ head’s remark that election promise to lower sales tax was wrong

JCP Secretariat Head Koike criticized ex-head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan Edano Yukio as being insincere. Edano said that promise to lower the consumption tax rate to 5% the CDPJ made in the 2021 general election was wrong.