The bureaucrats are appealing, in time-honoured fashion, to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's road lobby.
Paradoxically, as the Japanese economy weakened, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has actually grown stronger.
The details of the Liberal Democratic Party's scheme will not be announced until December 10th.
Yosano formerly held cabinet rank in Liberal Democratic Party governments, and was an LDP member.
The first of them pitches the ruling Liberal Democratic Party against the Bank of Japan.
It's poetic justice - just as Japan's Liberal Democratic Party wanted it to be.
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which the DPJ ousted in 2009, is grey and cynical.
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Its main opposition Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) supported the tax hike in August.
Structural reforms have been repeatedly resisted by vested interests within the Liberal Democratic Party.
Ryutaro Hashimoto's ruling Liberal Democratic Party aims to introduce a package of bills in the next session.
She is a TV personality and a member of parliament for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Members of the Liberal Democratic Party Mr. Abe's party have traditionally made frequent visits there to please their conservative constituents.
Did the prospect of an Abe Shinzo-led Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito government push up stocks?
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Mr Takamuki was summoned to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party headquarters and asked to think hard about Chizaki.
This is only the second time in 50 years we'll have a non-Liberal Democratic Party government in Japan.
Last month a frustrated electorate focused on economic issues and only reluctantly returned the Liberal Democratic Party to power.
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Japan's small and medium-size enterprises provide 80% of the jobs and most of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's votes.
Liberal Democratic Party politics was about distributing wealth from the center to the regions through public works and transfers.
The Liberal Democratic Party was formed in the mid-1950s and has ruled uninterrupted except for a defeat in 1993.
It must now also contend with political pressures: the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the banks are long-standing friends.
Nevertheless, he pulled the strings in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
Yesterday, the Liberal Democratic Party indicated it would support Kuroda and Nakaso, but it will vote against the arch-dove Iwata.
In Japan's curiously genteel election campaign, opinion polls indicate that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is heading for defeat.
In 1993 he stormed out of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), of which he had been a brilliant, young secretary-general.
But Mr Koizumi may ignore their pleas, despite New Komeito's growing clout in the eyes of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
But that is how the Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory is being interpreted by global investors, if not Japanese voters themselves.
Whatever small good these might do, they are typical of the old Liberal Democratic Party penchant for big government and reform gestures.
But conservatives, especially in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will resist change.
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Among his chief qualifications are his ties to the politicians of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, nourished through years at the finance ministry.
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