On September 20, local time, Japan's current Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Aquaculture, Xiao Jing, held a press conference in Tokyo, officially announcing his participation in the self-government party's presidential election.

Earlier, a number of latest Japanese polls showed that Koizumi Shinjiro was regarded as one of the popular candidates for the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party.

The Liberal Democratic Party lost successively in the House of Representatives election in October last year and the Senate election in July this year. The ruling coalition composed of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party lost more than half of the seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. This is the first time since its establishment in 1955 that the Liberal Democratic Party has failed to win more than half of the seats in both houses of Congress. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held a press conference on September 7th, announcing his decision to resign as president of the Liberal Democratic Party. The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan held a meeting of the Presidential Election Management Committee on the afternoon of September 9th, and decided to hold the presidential election of the Liberal Democratic Party on October 4th. (Bai Chunyang, reporter of the main station)