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Observing Japan

News and views on Japan's politics

By Tobias Harris · Launched 3 months ago
Shinzō and MeOn the evening of Thursday, 7 July, I was reading some of the coverage of the House of Councillors campaign and winding down for the evening when I saw the news flash on Twitter. I don’t remember the exact tweet I saw, I just remember the words, “Abe Shinzō,” “collapse,” “blood…
Jul 13
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Notes from the upper house campaign #1As the 10 July House of Councillors elections approach, I plan to do a series of posts compiling short notes on developments from the campaign trail. For my overview of the election, click here. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, which oversees elections, has
Jun 23
Abe may be gone, but his color remainsOn Wednesday, 10 August, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced a new lineup for his cabinet and the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party. Most notably about this reshuffle, of course, was its timing: although Kishida had indicated after last month’s upper house elections…
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Key questions for the upper house campaignThe campaign for Japan’s 10 July House of Councillors elections began on Wednesday, 22 June, with 533 candidates – including 177 women, 33.2% of the total, records for both the share and total number in an HOC election – vying for 124 seats in the 248-seat chamber plus one extra…
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Kuroda and Kishida are preparing to live with yen weaknessBank of Japan Governor Kuroda Haruhiko remains unwilling to adjust the BOJ’s monetary easing program even as the Federal Reserve has launched a…
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The defense spending battle lines are formingPrime Minister Kishida Fumio raised the stakes in the growing debate over Japan’s defense spending when he pledged to President Joe Biden during their…
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Kishida and the politics of stabilitySeveral new polls suggest that with the House of Councillors elections approaching, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is benefiting from the same conditions…
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Okinawa and Japan's national security NIMBYismPrime Minister Kishida Fumio was in Okinawa over the weekend as Japan and the prefecture commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the reversion of…
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Japan's conservatives have learned to love deficitsOn Monday, 9 May, former prime minister Abe Shinzō was in Oita campaigning for the Liberal Democratic Party ahead of this summer’s upper house…
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The Japanese public's growing support for a new defense policy regimePlus: an appreciation of Nakayama Toshihiro
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Industrial Policy for the Age of DeglobalizationI attended a Brookings Institution panel on U.S.-Japan economic statecraft on Wednesday, 4 May, featuring the LDP’s Kōno Tarō and Yamashita Takashi…
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