Overview
- According to multiple reports, the new Centrist Reform Alliance platform is set to affirm that exercising self-defense in an existential crisis to protect Japan is constitutional.
- The document would avoid the term “collective self-defense,” and the CDP’s long-held pledge to abolish “unconstitutional parts” of the security laws would be left out.
- Policy chiefs Honjo (CDP) and Okamoto (Komeito) are scheduled to present the platform on Jan. 19.
- A Kyodo News simulation estimates the LDP could lose 44 of 88 previously won head-to-head districts if Komeito voters switch, including Fukui 1st, Nagano 5th, and Gifu 5th.
- Reporting also points to conditional nuclear restarts with safety and local consent and a long-term goal of lowering reliance on nuclear power, while final language remains unconfirmed.