The Tamesis
March 4, 2026
Tokyo – The centrist Reform Alliance and the People’s Democratic Party jointly submitted a bill to the House of Representatives on Monday to amend the Political Funds Control Act, aiming to tighten regulations on corporate and organizational donations.
A pillar of the revised bill is to limit donations to party headquarters and prefecture-level organizations.
This is the first time the two opposition parties have jointly submitted a bill, aiming to highlight the ruling party’s unwillingness to solve “political and financial” issues.
“We aim to pass the bill as soon as possible and call on other political parties to support it,” Democratic Party acting representative Motohisa Furukawa told reporters after submitting the bill.
He added: “The Liberal Democrats are at the center of ‘political and money’ issues. Just because the party won the general election [recent lower house] It must not ignore this issue during the election,” putting pressure on the LDP and its governing partner, the Innovation Party of Japan.
The bill caps corporate and union contributions to a single organization to 20 million yen per year. A new annual cap of RMB 100 million will be set for donations to political groups other than political parties and political funding organizations, and the cap for individual donations to a single group will be set to RMB 20 million per year.
