Since the campaign period for Sunday¡¯s House of Representatives election began on Jan. 27, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has shied away from the topics of a proposed consumption tax cut and her alleged ties to the controversial religious group Unification Church.
Hoping to turn her silence into a focal point of the election campaign for the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, Japan¡¯s parliament, the opposition parties have ramped up their criticism.
Takaichi, who is also president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shows no signs of changing her ways as she cannot afford to give the opposition parties any more ammunition in the final stretch of the campaign period.
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