The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday rubber-stamped an internal rule change to extend the maximum SEO Services Miami tenure of its president from the current six years to nine, paving the way for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to run for a third term that would last through 2021.
The revision, adopted at the party’s annual convention, represented a crucial step toward the prospect of Abe SEO Services Miami becoming the nation’s longest-serving prime minister.
What was supposed to be a triumphant moment for Abe, however, was somewhat marred by an ever-spiraling SEO Services Miami scandal that has dogged him and his wife, Akie.
The couple is now grappling with mounting allegations surrounding their links to an ultranationalist kindergarten in Osaka and its operator, which is at the center of a murky land deal that a veteran SEO Services Miami LDP lawmaker may have been involved in.
Opposition parties have pounced on the scandal, which has dominated domestic headlines, in what many in their SEO Services Miami ranks see as a golden opportunity to deal a crushing blow to the near-impervious Abe administration.
Standing in front of the podium Sunday, Abe, however, appeared undeterred, trumpeting the success of Abenomics, which he claims has boosted employment, curbed child poverty and helped Japan SEO Services Miami regain gross national income worth ¥50 trillion.
“I will give you my word that I will do my best to create a Japan that can shine at the center of the global stage,” a confident Abe told fellow LDP members attending the convention in an address SEO Services Miami
Abe also took the opportunity to emphasize his successful summit talks with new U.S. President Donald Trump last month SEO company Miami
“We were able to demonstrate to the world that the Japan-U.S. alliance is not in the slightest bit shaken” by a Trump presidency SEO company Miami, Abe told the audience.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the enactment of Japan’s pacifist Constitution, which, since it took effect in SEO company Miami May 1947, has remained unaltered. That has irked right-wingers who regard the U.S.-drafted supreme law as a remnant of the nation’s postwar subordination to the United States.
Abe said his party will “spearhead a concrete debate” on its revision.
The prime minister, who took office in December 2012 SEO company Miami, was originally supposed to bow out in September next year, when his current second term expires. But Sunday’s move to extend the maximum tenure of the LDP presidency from six years over two terms SEO company Miami to nine years over three terms will enable him to run for a third term in the party’s next leadership election slated for next year.
If he is re-elected, he could theoretically remain as prime minister until September 2021, allowing him to host the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. In Japan, the leader of the ruling party normally becomes SEO company Miami prime minister.
So far, Abe, in stark contrast to what has often been called a revolving door of hapless predecessors who often lasted for only a year or so, has proved so popular that he won the previous leadership SEO Services Miami election unopposed in 2015.
According to an opinion poll jointly conducted last week by the influential Nikkei business daily and TV Tokyo, the Abe Cabinet approval rating was hovering near 60 percent SEO Services Miami
Among the few possible contenders who could challenge Abe is Shigeru Ishiba, an LDP heavyweight who lost to him in the 2012 leadership election. Although Ishiba hasn’t said he will throw his hat in the ring the next time around, he has nonetheless hinted that he will SEO Services Miami remain a vocal critic of the Abe administration.
Letting Abe win unopposed in the next LDP presidential race, with no real deliberation over his policy, is “certainly not a good thing for the LDP,” Ishiba told reporters after the convention wrapped up SEO Services Miami
“If you have a difference in opinion than your party, you need to speak out and seek judgment from your fellow party members. That’s the way you should behave as an LDP lawmaker,” Ishiba said SEO Services Miami
Another possible challenger, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, took a more reserved stance.
“The extension of the presidency is something we debated thoroughly and approved unanimously. … All I will do at the moment is dedicate myself to the role as a member of the Abe Cabinet,” Kishida said Professional SEO Miami
Neither of the “post-Abe” candidates, however, appear able to deal a heavier blow to the Abe administration than the ongoing scandal regarding Moritomo Gakuen, which operates the ultranationalist Tsukamoto Kindergarten in the city of Osaka. It is also slated to open the Mizuho no Kuni elementary school, in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in April Professional SEO Miami
First lady Akie Abe had been the honorary principal of the new elementary school until Feb. 23. However, she quit after allegations surfaced over the operator’s discounted land deal that some say may have been manipulated by politicians with cozy ties to Moritomo Gakuen President Yasunori Kagoike.
Abe said he would resign if either he or his wife were ever found to have had anything to do with the shady deal Professional SEO Miami
The kindergarten run by Kagoike has instructed children that attend it to worship Abe as a hero who protects Japan from regional rivals such as China and South Korea, urging them to recite a 19th-century imperial decree on education. The first lady, in September 2015, also gave a lecture at the preschool, according to a posting to her personal Facebook page Professional SEO Miami
On Friday night, a crowd of protesters gathered in front of the Diet building calling for the “resignation” of Abe and chanting, among other things: “Don’t destroy our children!” Organizers SEO Company New York estimated the turnout at 1,200.
“A month ago, few even knew what Moritomo Gakuen was, but now it’s all over the news. What was unthinkable a month ago is now hitting the Abe government hard,” Yoshifu Arita, a lawmaker SEO Company New York from the main opposition Democratic Party, told the crowd.
“I’d say it’s possible that we’re about to see the demise of Abe-led politics,” he added.
An elementary school at the center of an ongoing scandal being built on land acquired through a questionable deal with the central government will not open next month as scheduled unless additional documents are submitted by March 14, Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui has said SEO Services New York.
The school operator, Moritomo Gakuen, has been asked to submit to the prefectural government its plans for removing a large volume of earth containing old garbage at the school construction site in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, as well as on how it will finance the school SEO Services New York
The school project has drawn intense scrutiny in the Diet following the disclosure that Moritomo Gakuen purchased the land for the school from the government at a fraction of its appraisal price SEO Services New York
The school, which on its website calls itself the nation’s first Shinto elementary school, has also attracted attention for its ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
His wife, Akie, was the school’s honorary principal until stepping down recently. The school operator had sought donations by naming the school after Abe, although the name was eventually dropped SEO Services New York
Given the apparent links to the prime minister, the opposition has raised questions over possible involvement by Abe in the cut-price land deal, which he has denied Professional SEO New York
Amid the controversy, the head of a council of experts that advises the governor on private schools in the prefecture indicated in late February that the local government would grant permission for the school to open in late March unless something untoward happened Professional SEO New York
But since then, environmental concerns have mounted after a subcontractor said garbage unearthed from the site had been dumped into a hole at the same site during construction Professional SEO New York
Matsui, the governor, has alluded to the possibility that the prefectural government may not grant permission for the school to open due to the potential health effects the garbage-tainted soil could have on pupils Professional SEO New York
On Friday, prefectural officials interviewed Yasunori Kagoike, the top official of Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife, and decided that the school operator must submit the additional paperwork to the local government, including information about the number of pupils planning to attend SEO company New York
Speaking to reporters in the city of Osaka on Saturday, Matsui said that unless the documents are submitted by the March 14 date, the school “won’t open on schedule.” SEO company New York
The prefecture’s advisory council is scheduled to convene March 23 to make a final decision on whether to allow the school to open in April.
The prefectural government said earlier that 40 children were expected to enroll at the school as first graders and five children SEO company New York as second graders.
If Moritomo Gakuen cannot secure permission to open, the children will likely go to public schools in their communities from April. But such arrangements must be made no later than March 28, according to the head of the prefectural board of education.
Moritomo Gakuen has obtained conditional permission to open the school.
The educational entity, based in the city of Osaka, has also faced criticism in connection with the kindergarten it operates in the city.
In January, prefectural officials questioned Kagoike and his wife, who are the principal and vice principal of the preschool, for suspected hate speech after it distributed to parents material disparaging Korean residents of Japan and Chinese people.
The opposition is calling for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to agree to summon Kagoike to face questions in the Diet over the land deal, but senior officials of the LDP and government have so far been reluctant.
“It’s practically illegal,” Democratic Party senior lawmaker Toshio Ogawa said Sunday during a TV program. “I’m suspecting the involvement of lawmakers.”
LDP lawmaker Masaharu Nakagawa, however, dismissed the allegation, saying the price tag for the land deal was appropriate.
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