Japanese Tabloids Report Internal Party Criticism of Sanae Takaichi
Senior LDP figures complain of失去控制权, criticize tax plan and Trump meetings as 'overly fawning'
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- Japanese tabloids reveal internal criticism of Sanae Takaichi from within her party, with senior politicians complaining she is acting "like a queen" and has proven harder to control than expected.
- Veteran male lawmakers oppose her plan to suspend the 8% consumption tax for two years and criticize her meetings with US President Donald Trump as overly fawning.
- Professor Go Ito of Meiji University says there is a "cleavage within the party based on factional lines."
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Japanese tabloids, which are often more willing than the mainstream press to air insider grumbling, have reported complaints from within the party that Takaichi is acting "like a queen" and that senior figures who assumed they would be able to control her after she took power have been proved wrong. The veteran male politicians who have long set the party's agenda are also said to be unhappy with Takaichi's plan to suspend the 8 per cent consumption tax for the next two years to combat inflation, as well as with what critics inside the party see as overly fawning performances in meetings with US President Donald Trump in Tokyo and Washington. "There has been a cleavage within the party based on factional lines," said Go Ito, a professor of international relations at Tokyo's Meiji University.
