While the row between China and Japan is escalating, there is cause for optimism.
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Takaichi has pledged to revive Shinzo Abe’s economic vision of high public spending and cheap borrowing.
With a marked rise in political polarization and violent attacks, it is past due for Canada to strengthen efforts to protect its elected officials.
The rise of Japan’s first female leader is being hailed as a transformative moment for Japan. But in truth it may be more adaptation than reinvention.
Japan set for rare political shakeup after ruling Liberal Democratic party suffers ‘severe judgment’ in general election.
Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
The invasion of Ukraine and increased Chinese pressure on Taiwan have prompted Japan to abandon decades of pacifism.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Paddy Nixon discuss the week in politics.
A scholar of Japanese religion explains the connections that Japan’s political parties have with several religious groups and how religion is tied in with the legacy of Shinzo Abe.
Abe was Japan’s longest-serving post-war PM. His legacy, while considerable, is mixed.
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 economic benefits of the Olympics are in question like never before.
But it’s the taking part that counts.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is sinking in the polls under intense criticism over his handling of the Tokyo Games. And yet, he may still get over the line in national 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.
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.
The condition that has caused Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to resign.
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Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University
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Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia
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