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Key questions for the upper house campaign
The 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…
Jun 22
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Kuroda and Kishida are preparing to live with yen weakness
Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda Haruhiko remains unwilling to adjust the BOJ’s monetary easing program even as the Federal Reserve has launched a tightening cycle that has roiled global markets. At its policy board meeting this week, the BOJ decided by an overwhelming margin to…
Jun 17
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Notes from the upper house campaign #1
As 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
"We are living in a world that is not an extension of the past"
On Kishida's New Capitalism
Jun 3
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Industrial Policy for the Age of Deglobalization
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The defense spending battle lines are forming
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The defense spending battle lines are forming
Prime Minister Kishida Fumio raised the stakes in the growing debate over Japan’s defense spending when he pledged to President Joe Biden during their…
May 26
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Kishida and the politics of stability
Several new polls suggest that with the House of Councillors elections approaching, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is benefiting from the same conditions…
May 23
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Okinawa and Japan's national security NIMBYism
Prime Minister Kishida Fumio was in Okinawa over the weekend as Japan and the prefecture commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the reversion of…
May 16
Japan's conservatives have learned to love deficits
On Monday, 9 May, former prime minister Abe Shinzō was in Oita campaigning for the Liberal Democratic Party ahead of this summer’s upper house…
May 12
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The Japanese public's growing support for a new defense policy regime
Plus: an appreciation of Nakayama Toshihiro
May 9
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Industrial Policy for the Age of Deglobalization
I attended a Brookings Institution panel on U.S.-Japan economic statecraft on Wednesday, 4 May, featuring the LDP’s Kōno Tarō and Yamashita Takashi…
May 5
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Constitutional change may be a matter of when, not if
May 3 is Japan’s Constitution Memorial Day, which commemorates the enactment of the postwar constitution in 1947 – and I am beginning to think that a…
May 3
Why I am blogging again
To understand why, after nearly a decade away from blogging, I have decided to revive Observing Japan, I would point to the final paragraph of my 2020…
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