(260122) — TOKYO, Jan. 22, 2026 (Xinhua) — This photograph taken on Jan. 22, 2026 reveals a view of a conference held by Japan’s new opposition social gathering Centrist Reform Alliance in Tokyo, Japan. Japan’s new opposition social gathering Centrist Reform Alliance held a conference on Thursday to mark its official launch forward of the Feb. 8 decrease home normal election.
The new social gathering was fashioned final week between the primary opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) and the Komeito social gathering, in search of to defeat the conservative ruling bloc led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party within the upcoming contest. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)