
Founder and outgoing leader, Reiwa Shinsengumi Japan
Liberal
Anti-austerity as triage: the yen is never the constraint, poverty is the emergency — and when argument fails, put your body in front of the vote.
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Taro Yamamoto will resign as leader of Reiwa Shinsengumi. The reason is not only the speeding violation. It also involves my own health issues. ... I will never again become a member of the National Diet.
I think this deal is the same as being threatened by America over tariffs and made to pay a colossal protection fee. ... You hand Trump 80 trillion yen and still will not rescue people who are in distress? Even after giving Trump 80 trillion yen, no consumption tax cut and no flat cash payment? This is selling out the country and abandoning the people, taken to its absolute limit.
Source: Taro Yamamoto official site (House of Councillors Budget Committee) ↗For people who do not even uphold the constitution we already have to talk about changing it is ten thousand light years too early. Uphold the constitution we have — then we can talk. That is Reiwa Shinsengumi's position. ... To protect the people from this next fraud, this act of theft called constitutional revision, I declare that I will put my body on the line to stop it.
Source: Taro Yamamoto official site (House of Councillors Commission on the Constitution) ↗The rest of the record — every position, the goals behind them, and where a newer stance sits awkwardly with an older one — is on the details page.