Overview

• LDP leader Sanae Takaichi told lawmakers she took responsibility for Komeito’s exit after 26 years, thanked the party for past cooperation, and said she will seek partners to build a stable government as the largest bloc in both chambers.
• LDP Secretary-General Toshimitsu Suzuki said Komeito’s proposal to restrict corporate and organizational donations to party headquarters and prefectural bodies cannot be accepted wholesale, arguing it would upend the LDP’s financing model.
• The Constitutional Democratic Party pressed Japan Innovation Party and the Democratic Party for the People to coordinate for the prime minister nomination, with a leaders’ meeting sought as early as October 15, according to NHK.
• Japan Innovation Party officials held separate talks with LDP and CDP counterparts on Diet management and how to handle the prime minister vote, signaling openness to multiple alignments.
• Accountability pressures intensified as a review panel deemed the non-prosecution of LDP lawmaker Hiroyuki Kada unjustified, Osaka prosecutors filed additional charges against the former Kishiwada mayor, Fukuoka police arrested a school aide over a forged teaching license, and Sapporo prosecutors released a suspect without indictment in a body disposal case while continuing the probe.