Japan's main opposition parties will hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of supporting Yuichiro Tamaki as a candidate for unification and to face off against ruling party leader Takaichi Sanae in the Diet's vote for prime minister. Japan's ruling coalition suddenly collapsed last Friday, and the prospects for Sanae Takaichi, the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, to become prime minister became increasingly uncertain. Tamaki Yuichiro said on Tuesday morning that talks with the directors of the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Restoration Party, and the National Democratic Party will be held today. “I am determined to become prime minister,” he said in a post on X last week. If he is successfully elected, it will be the first time since 2009 that the Liberal Democratic Party has been ousted from power.

Japan's main opposition parties will hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of supporting Yuichiro Tamaki as a candidate for unification and to face off against ruling party leader Takaichi Sanae in the Diet's vote for prime minister. Japan's ruling coalition suddenly collapsed last Friday, and the prospects for Sanae Takaichi, the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, to become prime minister became increasingly uncertain. Tamaki Yuichiro said on Tuesday morning that talks with the directors of the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Restoration Party, and the National Democratic Party will be held today. “I am determined to become prime minister,” he said in a post on X last week. If he is successfully elected, it will be the first time since 2009 that the Liberal Democratic Party has been ousted from power.