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Abe may be gone, but his color remains
On Wednesday, 10 August, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced a new lineup for his cabinet and the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party. Most…
Tobias Harris
Aug 10
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Shinzō and Me
On 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…
Tobias Harris
Jul 13
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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…
Tobias Harris
Jun 23
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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…
Tobias Harris
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…
Tobias Harris
Jun 17
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"We are living in a world that is not an extension of the past"
On Kishida's New Capitalism
Tobias Harris
Jun 3
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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…
Tobias Harris
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…
Tobias Harris
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…
Tobias Harris
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…
Tobias Harris
May 12
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The Japanese public's growing support for a new defense policy regime
Plus: an appreciation of Nakayama Toshihiro
Tobias Harris
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…
Tobias Harris
May 5
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