Under the LDP, the current ruling party, Japan has seen wages flatlined, lifetime employment die and a third of the workforce shuffled into non-regular jobs with no security and lower pay. Meanwhile a weak yen and a PM Takaichi promoted tourism boom turned Kyoto into a theme park for people with stronger currencies, while the Japanese who actually live there watched their own money buy less every year. Nearly half of single-mother households live below the poverty line. Instead of explaining the shortcomings of its own governing record, the LDP shifted the blame onto the public.