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All posts tagged "Shinzo Abe"
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5.8KPoliticsBook Review: The Appropriated State
Amidst recent doubts regarding Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s political future, Koichi Nakano, professor of political theory at Sophia University and a leading...
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10.0KPoliticsWho Will Lead Japan after September?
Japan has no national elections scheduled in 2018, but there is one highly consequential vote on the calendar – the LDP’s internal...
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Toward a New Era of Revolving Door Prime Ministers?
The recent revelation that the Ministry of Finance doctored documents presented for Diet testimony has put the Abe administration in hot water,...
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4.7KPoliticsTroubling Times for the Abe Children
For the “Abe Children”, those members of the LDP who have been elected under the leadership of Shinzo Abe, the Moritomo Gakuen scandal...
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8.7KPoliticsAbe vs. Aso: The Moritomo Scandal Divides the LDP
After smoldering for over a year, the Moritomo Gakuen scandal this week ignited into a conflagration that may swallow the careers of...
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4.2KEconomyCan Japan Get the U.S. to Care about the Liberal Order Again?
Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum tariffs last week shouldn’t have been as much of a surprise as it...
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4.0KPoliticsThe LDP’s Constitution Debate Lacks Realism
Revising Japan’s post-war constitution has been a goal of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for decades, but for most of that time...
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7.5KSecurityJapan’s National Security Secretariat, Four Years On
On December 4, 2013, Japan’s National Security Council (NSC) convened for the first time. Certainly, the NSC has been an active security...
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8.1KSocietyShinzo Abe and Japan’s Demographic Reckoning
On January 1, 2018 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addressed the nation via the customary Prime Minister’s New Year’s Reflection statement. He used...
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4.5KPolitics2018 Preview: The Opposition
2017 was a tumultuous year for Japan’s political opposition. The Democratic Party all but collapsed after newly-elected leader Seiji Maehara dramatically announced...
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4.6KPoliticsLDP 2018 Preview: Constitutional Amendment
The following concludes our preview of the LDP’s political landscape in 2018. We finish by looking at the prospects for constitutional amendment:...
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4.5KPoliticsLDP 2018 Preview: Party Leadership
The following is part two of our preview of the LDP’s political landscape in 2018. Today we look ahead to the LDP’s...
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