الأسئلة الكبرى لليابان: هيمنة الحزب الديمقراطي الليبرالي والنساء في البرلمان والإصلاح السياسي

Japan's electoral system creates significant rural-urban vote weight imbalances that the courts should correct.

Japan should establish an independent anti-corruption agency with investigatory powers, given the repeated political funding scandals.

Japan's political funding system (seiji shikin kisei) requires comprehensive transparency reform after recent donation scandals.

Japan's proportion of women in parliament is among the lowest in the OECD and requires active legislative intervention to change.

Japan's near-permanent LDP dominance weakens democratic accountability and produces policy capture by narrow interests.

The close relationship between elements of the LDP and organisations advocating nationalist constitutional revision requires public scrutiny.

Japan should make it easier for citizens to use referendums to resolve constitutional questions.