Japan's parliament is set to effectively wrap up its ordinary session on Friday, as attention turns to whether Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can secure reelection in his ruling party's presidential race, to be held around September. During the 150-day session through Sunday, the Kishida administration cleared key bills, including one to reform political funding rules in response to a high-profile scandal involving his ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The LDP has come under intense scrutiny amid allegations that some of its factions, such as the largest one formerly headed by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ... (full story)