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KOICHI HAGIUDA

Sanae Takaichi campaigns alongside Koichi Hagiuda ahead of the Lower House election, in Tokyo in October 2024.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2026
Senior LDP official points to Abe-era lessons for Takaichi
Party heavyweight Koichi Hagiuda says the prime minister¡¯s administration lacks the discipline that characterized her political mentor¡¯s approach.
Liberal Democratic Party's policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi speaks at a ruling parties meeting in Tokyo on July 17.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 23, 2026
Parliament extension grounds some lawmakers from overseas travel
The Lower House¡¯s rules committee turned down requests from senior Liberal Democratic Party officials so they would be available to respond to questions during the extension.
Koichi Hagiuda, one of the five leading figures of a now-defunct faction once led by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mired in a slush fund scandal, is regaining power within the party.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 10, 2026
Power struggle unfolding among ex-Abe faction members
Those who were considered to be the five leading figures of the faction, which was at the center of the LDP¡¯s slush fund scandal, have regained power under Takaichi.
Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People (DPP), delivers a question during a House of Representatives plenary session on May 25. Making the DPP a coalition member would make it easier for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (above left) to drive forward her legislative agenda.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 3, 2026
The LDP wants another coalition partner. Will it happen?
The Liberal Democratic Party floated the idea of inviting the Democratic Party for the People to join the ruling bloc.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at an LDP meeting in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
May 12, 2026
LDP sees emergence of new political support group for Takaichi
The group is endorsed by both party heavyweights who backed her in last year¡¯s presidential election and those who ran against her.
Then-Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano in October 2021
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 4, 2026
CRA heavyweights¡¯ heated contests allude to party¡¯s uphill struggle in Sunday¡¯s vote
Yukio Edano, Jun Azumi and Ichiro Ozawa are among candidates facing neck-and-neck races in their home turfs.
Voters listen to a stump speech in the city of Hachioji, in western Tokyo, on Jan. 29.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 4, 2026
LDP executive seeks to leave slush fund scandal behind
Koichi Hagiuda was among the five leading figures of the now-defunct LDP faction once led by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which was at the center of the scandal.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Japan Innovation Party head Hirofumi Yoshimura speak to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 8, 2026
Speculation over potential snap election resurfaces
Recent remarks of senior members of the ruling coalition appear to have gotten many talking again about the possibility of a dissolution of the Lower House in the near future.
Koichi Hagiuda, a senior figure in Â鶹´«Ã½ ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has described Japan-Taiwan relations as "the best they have ever been,¡± according to a statement from Taiwan¡¯s Presidential Office.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 24, 2025
Flurry of Japanese lawmaker visits to Taiwan sparks China¡¯s anger
Visits by Japanese lawmakers to Taiwan are not unusual, but the current round comes at a time of heightened tensions between Japan and China.
Koichi Hagiuda, deputy secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (left), and Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te meet in Taipei on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 23, 2025
LDP exec Hagiuda and Taiwanese President Lai agree to boost ties
Hagiuda told Lai that he hopes to continue deepening what he described as the best-ever relations between the two sides.
Koichi Hagiuda, the Liberal Democratic Party¡¯s deputy secretary-general, at the party headquarters in Tokyo in October. He is on a three-day visit to Taiwan through Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 22, 2025
LDP lawmakers continue to visit Taiwan amid tensions with China
Meanwhile, it seems unlikely that a multiparty group of Japanese lawmakers for Japan-China friendship will be able to send a delegation to China by the end of this year.
LDP and JIP lawmakers discuss Lower House seats reduction in Tokyo on Nov. 21.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Takaichi and JIP¡¯s Yoshimura agree to submit bill reducing Lower House seats
Passing a bill to cut seats in the lower chamber was a key demand for the Japan Innovation Party to enter into a coalition government with the Liberal Democratic Party.
The appointment of seven scandal-hit lawmakers to government posts, approved after the launch of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi¡¯s Cabinet, may draw criticism.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Seven LDP slush fund lawmakers given government posts
The move may draw criticism, as public sentiment on the scandal remains strong.
LDP lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2025
Secretary of LDP¡¯s Hagiuda fined over funds scandal
The 46-year-old secretary, Toshifumi Ushikubo, was ordered to pay ?300,000.
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2025
Summary indictment eyed for secretary of LDP¡¯s Koichi Hagiuda
A panel of citizens ruled that the secretary of Hagiuda, a member of the House of Representatives, should be prosecuted.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office will reinvestigate the case against the former secretary of lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda and consider again whether to seek criminal punishment.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 6, 2024
Citizen panel nixes decision not to indict Hagiuda¡¯s secretary
The panel said it is unreasonable not to prosecute the secretary in view of the maliciousness of the acts relating to the Liberal Democratic Party¡¯s slush funds scandal.
Koichi Hagiuda thanks his supporters early Monday in Tokyo after his victory in Sunday's general election became certain.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 28, 2024
60% of ¡®slush fund¡¯ candidates lose in Japan Lower House poll
The severe outcome reflected renewed criticism against the LDP that arose in the final stage of the election campaign.
Koichi Hagiuda, former economy minister, shakes hands with his supporters in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2024
In western Tokyo, national scandals rub up against local politics
In the Tokyo No. 24 district, the LDP is grappling with a backlash, but the opposition is struggling to capitalize on the public¡¯s lingering dissatisfaction.
Koichi Hagiuda, former policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 16, 2024
LDP¡¯s Hagiuda to resign as head of Tokyo chapter
¡°I had great responsibility as the person who oversaw¡± the party¡¯s by-elections campaign, Hagiuda told reporters.
Toshiaki Otake
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 17, 2024
Former secretary to Koichi Hagiuda arrested over drunken driving
Toshiaki Otake is suspected of driving a car from his home in Hachioji to a convenience store in the city while drunk.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
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Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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