Archive - Observing Japan

December 2024

Japan's Democracy in 2025

Happy New Year to my readers

Dec 31, 2024 •

Ishiba plays catch-up with Trump

After Abe Akie goes to Florida, the prime minister may get his own meeting -- but it doesn't look like a win

Dec 20, 2024 •

"It is the end of an era"

Watanabe Tsuneo, 1926-2024

Dec 19, 2024 •

The year Japanese politics went Online

Japanese democracy grapples with social media

Dec 17, 2024 •

Changing places

The Democratic Party for the People passes the Constitutional Democratic Party, while Ishiba continues to muddle along

Dec 16, 2024 •

Constructive restraint | Today in Japanese politics

The ruling and opposition parties work together to pass a budget; Abe Akie at Mar-a-Lago?

Dec 12, 2024 •

New players, new roles | Today in Japanese politics

Ishin no Kai has a new leader, Ishiba's "strange stability," and shifting alliances in the House of Representatives

Dec 2, 2024 •

November 2024

Anti-establishment vibes

What Saitō Motohiko’s social media-fueled comeback says about Japan’s political moment

Nov 18, 2024 •

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