Despite refusing to stand down, Shigeru Ishiba’s heavy defeat in Japanese elections has left his position very vulnerable.
- Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University
Japan has been under pressure from the US on tariffs and defence spending. And the new prime minister is under pressure domestically to hold firm with Trump.
Japan’s scandal-tainted ruling party is losing credibility with the public. The new PM is hoping a quick election will catch the opposition off guard and solidify his party’s mandate.
The scandal-plagued prime minister could not overcome his dire approval ratings.
During a state visit to the White House, the US and Japanese leaders announce a suite of new agreements aimed at countering China’s growing power.
With the leaders of the US, South Korea and Japan meeting at Camp David, attention has once again been turned to North Korea’s as well as to China’s activities in the region.
The world is in shock after news Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been shot dead during a speech in Nara, western Japan.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida now has the challenge of delivering on his promise of ‘new capitalism’.
In a surprise result, Kishida defeated the popular Taro Kono in the party leadership contest, making him the country’s third prime minister in just over a year.
Despite the sluggish vaccine rollout, Suga’s party, the LDP, is still favoured to retain power in this year’s general election, meaning whoever wins the party leadership contest will likely remain PM.
The spy alliance has had the same membership for more than 60 years. That could be about the change.
How Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s government handles the games may just determine its fate in elections this year.
Cancelling the Tokyo games would be yet another blemish for the new government and could doom its chances in the next election later this year.
In a region and world in flux, Japan and Australia have taken another step towards a formal military alliance.
Suga has a strict work ethic, rising at 5am each day. He will need to work hard to hang on to the prime ministership at a bumpy time for Japan.
Abe restored mild economic growth to Japan and enhanced the country’s position on the global stage, but his handling of the coronavirus pandemic was widely criticised.
Japan’s coronavirus infections continue to rise as its neighbors’ curves flatten. Why aren’t people listening to the government and staying home?
The underlying implication of Malcolm Turnbull’s Tokyo visit was the interest shared by Japan and Australia to counter the strategic rise of China.
Shinzo Abe may have kickstarted the debate on constitutional change with high hopes for success. But the outcome in 2020 is anything but certain.
Beyond her own personal humiliation, the ramifications of Park’s fall are already reverberating from domestic South Korean politics into the fraught geopolitics of Northeast Asia.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have just demonstrated to other world leaders how to possibly approach President Donald Trump.
Australia looks set to continue to confront its core foreign policy dilemma: balancing relations between its largest trading partner, China, and its key security partners, the US and Japan.
If construction of its submarines in Australia proceeds, it will be Japan’s first postwar export of a major combat weapons system.
As widely expected, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a landslide victory in the country’s snap election. The LDP holds a 291-seat majority in…
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