LDP to Actively Use Social Media for Election Victory

   Tokyo, Feb. 22 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has worked out a draft of its 2025 policy platform calling for, among other things, promoting the use of social media as part of its efforts to win this summer's election for the House of Councillors.
   Achieving a victory in the election for the upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, is the most important challenge for the party this year, according to the draft platform, approved by the party's General Council on Friday.
   It also says that the party will formulate a Reiwa-version political reform program, with an aim to dispel the public distrust of politics created by a high-profile slush funds scandal involving LDP factions. Reiwa is the name of Japan's era that started in 2019.
   The policy platform is set to be formalized at an LDP convention scheduled for March 9.
   The platform would show the LDP's determination to realize the country's growth and rebuild the party, which is set to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding in November this year.

(2025/02/22-13:20)