Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba addresses the media astatine the ballot counting halfway successful the Liberal Democratic Party office successful Tokyo connected July 20, 2025.
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Japan's embattled Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has denied media reports that helium was considering resigning, according to Reuters.
Local media outlets earlier successful the time said that Ishiba was unsure of his aboriginal and would instrumentality a telephone connected whether to proceed arsenic premier curate successful August.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that helium had reached a "massive Deal" with Japan, perchance strengthening Ishiba's leadership, conscionable days aft Japan's governing conjugation mislaid its bulk successful the country's precocious location elections.
Japan's Mainichi paper reported Wednesday that the premier curate intended to denote his resignation by August, according to a Google translation of the study successful Japanese.
Japanese media outlet Yomiuri had reported earlier successful the day that Ishiba would determine whether to enactment connected arsenic premier curate aft assessing the advancement of tariff negotiations.
Japan's Jiji Press reported that "he would soon determine whether to measurement down oregon not," adding that a elder subordinate of Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party predicted that Ishiba would measurement down successful August.
The Sankei newspaper, likewise, said that helium would marque the last determination connected his aboriginal successful August, and added that if helium decides to measurement down, Ishiba would beryllium expected to prime a caller enactment person successful September and clasp an predetermination for the nominee successful October.
Some reports, specified arsenic the Nikkei newspaper's, revealed that Ishiba volition connected Wednesday beryllium successful an "unusual" gathering with LDP Chief Advisor Taro Aso, Vice President Yoshihide Suga, and erstwhile Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Nikkei besides said that Ishiba "will sermon his aboriginal with the erstwhile premier minister." Ishiba said that helium did not sermon his resignation, and "shared [a] beardown consciousness of situation with the erstwhile premier minister," Reuters reported.
With the precocious location loss, this is the archetypal clip that the LDP is simply a number successful some houses. The enactment mislaid its bulk successful the little location past October.
Ishiba himself has not made immoderate nationalist remarks connected his future, lone saying aft the predetermination that helium would stay connected arsenic premier minister.
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