Ishiba formally reelected Japan's prime minister, setting stage for minority gov't

The important point is to make sure that Japan is a peaceful nation and people's livelihoods improve

Duh.

Its the policy to achieve the obvious aims that matter.

More deficit spending isn’t going to cut it. Cut the deficit spending instead.

Congratulations, I hope all goes well as planned and get inflations under control, please.

They always say It's The Economy.... and they are right, trust me.

This Govt will hardly last for an year

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Its worth noting the ridiculousness going on here:

During the initial round of voting in the 465-member House of Representatives, none of the candidates reached the majority threshold of 233 votes required to be elected prime minister.

In this initial round, 221 voted for Ishiba, 151 for Noda, and 93 for 7 other candidates. Since nobody got a majority, a runoff vote was held between the top two finishers from the first vote.

In the runoff, there were only 2 options: Ishiba and Noda. That's it.

In the runoff, Ishiba received 221 votes, surpassing Noda's 160, and was declared the winner, with 84 deemed invalid.

The runoff result was Ishiba got 221 again (so unchanged from the initial round), Noda got 160 (so an increase of 9 from the initial round) and the 84 "invalid" votes were for other candidates that were not among the 2 options. Those 84 elected officials (all from small parties) preferred to waste their vote instead of actually supporting someone, and in doing so, they indirectly re-elect Ishiba.

preferred to waste their vote instead of actually supporting someone, and in doing so, they indirectly re-elect Ishiba

That's by far not correct, first, because the 84 don't know beforehand the ratio of the valid votes so that they can switch side or not, and second, if they really would have been forced to vote for one of the two candidates, they would have done it not extremely biased, but also in a similar or nearly similar ratio as the valid votes. And Ishiba needed only 12 additional votes out of the 84 for a majority. You see, they would nearly all had to vote for Noda for that Ishiba wouldn't have won, which is improbable in that splittered block of smaller opposition parties. Or in other words, if out of the 84 almost all had instead voted for Noda, then the whole bunch of small parties would be practically obsolete and in fact be already part of the Noda faction and then had voted such. So it's not that they indirectly reelected Ishiba, but in contrary took from his statistically winning potential as many votes so that he even missed the 233 votes for majority.

Ishiba is not the transformative leader that Japan needs. The government is even more alienated from its citizens than other countries that have adopted Western liberalism and incorporated Western values of capitalism, freedom, the rule of law and good governance.

The defeciets must be eliminated, government spending as a component of GDP must be lowered, taxes must be lowered and freedom and responsibility must be returned to citizens.

You are not a "samurai," the owner is, you are a feudal vassal providing your labour to the lord for inadequate compensation.

It is time for a new "Meiji Restoration."

He was dozing until immediately before this photo.

Government who has no interest citizen is about to be repeated again.

changamangaliay Nov. 11 09:29 pm JST

This Govt will hardly last for an year

That will depend on the next Senate elections. At the moment there is only one viable choice of government. which is Ishiba's LDP.

Either a tripartite LDP, Komeito and DPP or the LDP, Komeito and Ishin.

There is no other possibility.

Imagine getting a round of applause from your party colleagues for calling an early election and losing 50 seats in the Diet. Politics (everywhere) can be absurd.

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Ishiba is not the transformative leader that Japan needs. The government is even more alienated from its citizens.... It is time for a new "Meiji Restoration."

No. Japanese people are relatively happy with the current situation in their country. How do I know? Ask them if they would prefer to live in other countries like the USA, EU nations, India, Korea, or China instead of Japan. Of course, there are many issues here. They want inflation under control; they want better wages, etc., but Japanese people aren’t looking for a revolution. What Japan needs is Kaizen (a steady effort to make improvements), which may not be fast or glamorous.

Never underestimate Ishiba. He is a different type. He may be clumsy and not very sociable, but he is extremely knowledgeable and a formidable debater. He is one of the very few politicians who opposed Abe’s policies within the party. He will face strong opposition within the party when he tries to roll back Abe’s policies. We will see.

@socrateos

You might enjoy reading this book:

"The Exodus of Japanese: The Light and Shadow of Overseas Migration" by Oishi Nana.

The term "exodus" is refers to young Japanese people leaving. Not students because Japan is too broke but young people looking for greener pastures.

Ishiba is not the transformative leader that Japan needs to lead a 21st centure "Meiji Restoration" to break the country free of the cobwebs that are holding citizens down and not at all the sort of person to instill confidence for the revitalization that is needed to spur bold courageous child birthing.

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"Exodus" is an exaggeration. The fact is...

Around 1.4 million Japanese nationals are estimated to live abroad, making up approximately 1.1% of Japan's population (of around 125 million). Japanese expatriates generally maintain strong ties to Japan, and many do not seek permanent residency in their host countries.

About 7.4 million ethnic Koreans live outside South Korea, representing roughly 14% of South Korea’s population (about 52 million). South Koreans are more likely to seek permanent residency or citizenship abroad. It's estimated that around 40-50% of Koreans abroad acquire permanent residency in their host countries.

An estimated 60 million ethnic Chinese live abroad, which is around 4.3% of China’s population (approximately 1.4 billion). Many Chinese emigrants aim for permanent residency due to economic opportunities, education, and family reunification.

@socrateos

You deny the reality that things have been slowly but surely getting worse in Japan for 30 years and a substantial and growing number of citizens are living in poverty. The ship has been slowly sinking for 3 decades.

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The data shows otherwise. Compared to other countries, Japanese people not only tend to stay in their own country but also rarely settle abroad permanently.