Kishida says he will present new policy options in bid for LDP leadership

A truly one state party.

Dylan sings in one song, "all things old can be new again". This is appropriate for another LDP leader's race. Suga will insist his second coming will be new and improved, like the latest dishwashing detergent. And Kishida will try to bleach the stained neo-nationalist, neo-liberal policy agenda, trying to "make Japan proud again" and dressing up more deregulation and class war, this time, as Fumiomics.

Kishida says he will present new policy options in bid for LDP leadership

The words 'new' and 'LDP' in the same sentence? Do me a favour!

nonu6976Today  11:14 am JST

anyone but Suga please.

I wonder how long have you been here.

It doesn’t matter if the PM is Aso,Abe,Suga or any other affiliate of the Nippon Kaigi,they have one common goal and one united vision of revisionism.

So with them at the helm things will only get worse.

Suga is doing as bad as his predecessor.

I wonder how long have you been here.

Over 20 years in Japan, so I'm well aware of the political landscape here.

I'm just tired of listening to his monotone voice and looking at his expressionless face as he says the same thing day after day, making the same empty promises which he has no intention of keeping. He has absolutely no charisma whatsoever. If he was not the PM, nobody would even notice him. He has no redeeming qualities at all.

Our country's democracy is facing a crisis

Huh?

Its the same every time, the LDP decides their president and that person becomes Prime Minister because the voters don’t hear any policy options to know who to vote for.

Then what are these morons doing talking about revising the constitution to do this and that for the SDF? Is that what the next election is going to be about?

Kishida is just soft talk. He won’t quit politics if he doesn’t win, he’ll stay on and keep earning that paycheck.

The toxic faction system is ingrained within the LDP ruling government, top to bottom.

Former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida whist a member of former PM Abe san cabinet offered nothing to suggest restructure of reform.

It is a form of politically perverse follow my leader mentality.

The danger is that leadership has, or is becoming more opaque/dysfunctional.

Who is pulling the strings?

LDP Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai who leads Shisuikai Faction, with the ever present stink of bribery and corruption, cronyism.

The LDP in Search of a Center: Kingmaker Nikai’s Stock Falls as Suga Loses Support

https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00670/

Former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, offers nothing other that a political puppet, singing from the same hymn sheet.

Change the constitution? The crown jewels, the essence of what makes Japan a peace loving nation.

What have u been doing in LDP until now, waiting for your turn???

"People's trust, which is the foundation of politics, is falling apart," he said, in a veiled criticism of Suga's leadership. "Our country's democracy is facing a crisis."

A crisis entirely engineered and exacerbated by the LDP, so Kishida is going to do nothing about it whatsoever. The LDP are never going to fix all the problems with the electoral system because they know they might never get back into power again if they did.

Kishida, who heads an LDP faction with over 40 members, suggested he would implement tough measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, saying, "We need to keep in mind the worst-case scenario."

He called for public debate about amending the Constitution. 

Going by those kinds of inane LDP-style platitudes it doesn't sound like we can expect any new policy options from him.

Except for the fluent Japanese readers here, the foreigners reading these translated articles from Japanese to English are missing out on so much as the languages do not translate well, and customs and culture hold super power over the whole overall situation.

When someone is running for office here, driving around in a little white van with a huge illegal decibel projecting nuclear speaker on top, waving with little white gloves and screaming their name over and over again, well, you have to be Japanese to really understand what they are saying, nod with approval and wave back.

Unless you are a Japanese or a nonJapanese raised multicultural here, you will not get it. The subtle nuances, the look like you are taking a nap(Aso) kind of feel, no words in English can translate these cultural differences.

So please ignore the English words used in translation like, contemplating, thinking about, considering, having thoughts, etc… Most of those are just nods of approval or nods of disapproval, and to distinguish between nods, well you have had to have been raised here.

Thanks Kishida for bringing down the LDP house.

He's truly the greatest.

Just going to be an Abe/Aso puppet!

anyone but Suga please.