Japan’s ruling party headquarters is attacked with firebombs, suspect arrested: reports
A🎃 man threw several firebombs into the headquarters of Japan’s ruling party in Tokyo Saturday, public broadcaster NHK and other Japanese media reported. Theꦅre were no reports of injuries.
The man, who was arrested on the spot, had driven his car into nearby fencing, the news reports said. His motive for the attack wasꦜ not immediately clear.
Tokyo police declined to comment, noting the matter was still under 🤡inves💮tigation.
The🐻 ruling Liberal Democratic Party is inc🌞reasingly unpopular with the public due to a ballooning money scandal involving dubious funding and suspected tax evasion.
The party declined to comment ꦿon Saturday’s attack, referring all queries 🔯to the police.
Voting for the lower house of Parliament is set for Oct. 27. Some tarnished politicians lost the official backing of the ruling party but are running as independenಞts.
The party recently chose a new leader, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, hoping to present a new image.
But polls show its popularity plummeting, although it’s still unclear whether they will lose their majority grip on the lower house in the upcoming electio💯n given the splintered opposition.
Some candidates have be꧑en heckled, which is relatively rare in Japanese cuꦺlture.
T🌼he Liberal Democrats have ൩ruled Japan almost incessantly over recent decades.
They are credited with leading Japa❀n as it became ▨an economic powerhouse from the devastation of World War II.
Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in 2022, while making 📖a speech for a ruling party candidate during a parliamentary election.
The killer used a handmade firearm, saying h🃏e resented Abe because his mother gave all the family money to the Unification Church, and he saw Abe as affiliated with that church.
Such ties are still ongoing withღ some ruling par⛄ty politicians.
