Japan Perspectives Recent Articles from the Tokyo Foundation Website No.12
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2015

press conference, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced he was postponing a hike in the consumption tax from 8% to 10%scheduled for October 2015-for 18 months, given the fragile state of the economy.He then told the nation that he was dissolving the lower house of the National Diet to seek a mandate on his decision.Not surprisingly, the December 14, 2014, snap election for the House of Representatives resulted in a landslide victory for Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, giving the LDP and its coalit