Japan Business Federation

Keidanren supported the Noda government's efforts to raise Japan's consumption tax from 5% to 10%. It had previously called for the consumption tax to be raised even higher, to 15%.[https://news.yahoo.com/keidanren-urges-govt-raise-consumption-tax-10-higher.html Keidanren urges gov't to raise consumption tax to 10% or higher+] Retrieved on July 20, 2012

After the March 11 nuclear disaster and subsequent shutdown of all the nuclear plants in Japan, Keidanren called for their restart.{{cite news|date=April 23, 2012|url=http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/04/154452.html|title=Keidanren chief renews call for restart of nuclear plants|newspaper=Kyodo News|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423174825/http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/04/154452.html|archivedate=April 23, 2012}} This view was not shared by all business leaders, with Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani leaving the federation partly over this issue. Masayoshi Son of Softbank publicly objected to the focus on restarting the nuclear plants, but didn't leave the federation over it.{{cite news|date=November 16, 2011|title=Softbank's Son denounces Keidanren's energy proposal|url=http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/recovery/AJ201111160007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116190827/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/recovery/AJ201111160007|archive-date=November 16, 2011|access-date=July 20, 2012|newspaper=The Asahi Shimbun}}

Keidanren and its predecessor bodies had a long history of providing substantial political donations to the Liberal Democratic Party. In the lead-up to the 2009 general election the Democratic Party of Japan made a pledge to ban political donations from companies and organizations. After the DPJ victory in that election, Keidanren stopped making political donations.Asahi Shimbun [http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201002280171.html EDITORIAL: Political donations 2010/03/01] Retrieved on July 20, 2012Nikkei Weekly Business lobbies in state of flux June 16, 2012, page 28

In 2002, when Keidanren took on its current form, two-thirds of its 18 vice-chairmen were from manufacturing companies. As of July 2012, only 8 of the 18 are filled by executives of manufacturers.

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Below are the lists of presidents, Chair, Vice-presidents and Vice-Chairs of Japan Business Federation (as of July 1, 2021).Nippon Keidanren website {{cite web |url=https://www.keidanren.or.jp/en/profile/yakuin/pro003.html |title=About Keidanren Officers of KEIDANREN|access-date=2021-08-08}}

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• {{Cite web|last=Daimon|first=Sayuri|date=June 16, 2009|title=The all-powerful voice of corporate Japan|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/16/reference/the-all-powerful-voice-of-corporate-japan/|website=The Japan Times|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108013856/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/16/reference/the-all-powerful-voice-of-corporate-japan/|archivedate=January 8, 2019}}
• https://www.keidanren.or.jp/en/
• http://www.keidanren-usa.org/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205060646/http://keidanren-usa.org/ |date=December 5, 2006 }}

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