Editorial

15:00 JST, September 23, 2025

If they are truly determined to take the helm of the government, they should present medium- to long-term economic and fiscal policies. The current situation in which they focus solely on immediate measures against high prices is unsatisfactory.

Official campaigning for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election has begun, with five of the party’s lawmakers filing their candidacies.

Of the five candidates, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi have strongly emphasized tax cuts in their economic policies.

Kobayashi has proposed implementing a flat-rate tax cut, deducting a fixed percentage from income tax, for about two years.

A flat-rate tax cut was first........

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