1. Japan’s Lower House has been dissolved for a general election set for October 27. Official campaigning will kick off next Tuesday. It will be the first Lower House in three years. Ahead of the formal dissolution in the Diet, Ishiba had his first one-on-one debate against the four opposition parties, the Constitutional Democratic Party, Japan Innovation Party, Japanese Communist Party and Democratic Party for the People.
2. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party officially announced on Wednesday morning that it would deny endorsements for 12 current and former Lower House members in the upcoming election over their involvement in the recent political funding scandal.
3. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ series of meetings got underway in Laos on Wednesday. On the agenda: Howe to break the impasse in Myanmar, where fighting between the military and pro-democracy forces is intensifying.
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