{"id":322548,"date":"2026-01-20T07:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322548"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:28:47","slug":"japan-pm-takaichi-to-dissolve-lower-house-on-friday-for-feb-8-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322548","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM Takaichi to dissolve lower house on Friday for Feb 8 election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO, Jan 20 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, yesterday, announced her plan to dissolve the House of Representatives on Jan 23, for a snap general election set for Feb 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a press conference, Takaichi said, she will dissolve the 465-member lower house on Friday, the opening day of this year&#8217;s ordinary parliamentary session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting will take place on Feb 8, with official campaigning starting from Jan 27, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election, the first since Takaichi took office on Oct 21, is set to come with more than two years left in the current lower house term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Takaichi informed senior members from her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner, Japan Innovation Party, of her intention to dissolve the all-important lower chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To battle the ruling bloc, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Komeito party, a former longtime LDP ally, agreed last Thursday, to form the Centrist Reform Alliance, which would be the largest opposition force, for the upcoming contest.&#8211; NNN-NHK &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Jan 20 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, yesterday, announced her plan to dissolve the House of Representatives on Jan 23, for a snap general election set for Feb 8. At a press conference, Takaichi said, she will dissolve the 465-member lower house on Friday, the opening day of this year&#8217;s ordinary parliamentary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":322550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322551,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322548\/revisions\/322551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}