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The Features of LDP's Intraparty Factions and Political Conservative Shift in Japan

SEON-GYU GO 1

1중앙선거관리위원회

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study has two main purposes. The first one is to investigate the policy characteristics of the intraparty factions . The second aim is to provide the political conservative shift for korea in Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected on Sept. 8 as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) unopposed. He is set to serve another three-year term as leader of the governing party until September 2018. The LDP was supposed to increase the weight of votes casted by local chapters from the upcoming leadership race in a bid to demonstrate to the public that the ruling party attaches importance to its rank-and-file members as well as its regional organizations. However, the current trend within the LDP has given the public the impression that party members are trying to avoid heated debate because of a Cabinet reshuffle and appointments of party executives that will follow its presidential race. If so, it would be extremely introspective. The LDP has recently tended to avoid active policy discussions. The party has failed to have heated debate on the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets, reinterpreting the war-renouncing Constitution to open the way for Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense and the security bills now being deliberated in the House of Councillors, among other issues that are related to the nation's direction.

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