{"id":5892,"date":"2025-07-03T03:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2025-07-03T03:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:07:59","slug":"notice-the-ishihara-cabinets-first-senate-election-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5892","title":{"rendered":"Notice: The Ishihara Cabinet\u2019s first Senate election is underway."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5893 aligncenter\" title=\"u26137855501542818707fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/u26137855501542818707fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG.jpg\" alt=\"u26137855501542818707fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/u26137855501542818707fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG.jpg 750w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/u26137855501542818707fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the House of Councillors election marks the official start of the campaign, the first since the Ishiba Cabinet\u2019s formation.<br \/>\nOn July 3, local time, the announcement for the Japanese House of Councillors election was issued, officially commencing the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first House of Councillors election since the Ishiba Cabinet\u2019s formation. As scheduled, the vote counting will take place on the 20th.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese House of Councillors has 248 seats. Councillors serve six-year terms, with half the seats up for election every three years. This election will contest a total of 125 seats: 124 seats subject to regular renewal and one additional seat in the Tokyo electoral district.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito Party hold a combined 75 non-up-for-election seats in the House of Councillors. To secure a majority in the upper house, the ruling coalition needs to win at least 50 seats in this election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of the House of Councillors election marks the official start of the campaign, the first since the Ishiba Cabinet\u2019s formation. On July 3, local time, the announcement for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,267],"tags":[2714,283,2717,2716,2715],"views":44,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5894,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/5894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}