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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 Okinawa from the United States to Japan in 1972. It was Kishida’s first visit to the prefecture since becoming prime minister last…
May 16
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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 elections. In his appearance, the former prime minister offered (jp) candid remarks on Japan’s fiscal policy.
May 12
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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 that enabled former prime minister Abe Shinzō to survive in power from nearly eight years after returning in 2012.
May 23
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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
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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
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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…
May 2
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