Formed in 2010 to shake up Japan’s political establishment and loosen Tokyo’s administrative stranglehold, the Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin, is now set to help the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) extend seven decades of dominance.
The opposition group from Osaka said it is ready to ally with the LDP, all but guaranteeing its new hardline conservative leader Sanae Takaichi (pic) will become the country’s first female prime minister when parliament picks a new premier this week.
