The Conversation Article RatingWhy did Japan's new leader trigger snap elections only a week after taking office? And what happens next?
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48% : This includes reducing Japan's reliance on nuclear power, allowing women to keep their family names after marriage, legalising same-sex marriage, and encouraging the Bank of Japan to gradually increase interest rates.Ishiba also conceded his proposal to pursue an "Asian-style NATO" will have to remain a longer-term ambition, after officials from India and the US expressed doubts over the proposal.Ishiba has confirmed, after some initial uncertainty, that his party will not endorse ten Diet members in the election who were implicated in a slush fund scandal that had damaged Kishida's government.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.