PRESS CONFERENCE
Top Opposition Party Eyes LDP Vote
Yoshihiko Noda, President of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
15:00-16:00 Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.
Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has been leader of his opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan for nearly a year, a period with two national elections and now an upcoming Liberal Democratic Party presidential election that likely will determine the nation’s next leader, after the intended resignation of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
Noda, who served as premier from 2011 to 2012, previously ruled out any grand coalition with the LDP, but his party failed to gain on LDP opposition in the July election, which the CDP called a "de facto" defeat. The party had called for measures to deal with Japanese inflation such as lowering the consumption tax on food to zero and reducing gasoline and diesel prices, but voter interest was muted.
For more on next steps for politics in Japan and the CDP specifically, please join us for former Prime Minister Noda.
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