Ex-Defense chief Ishiba plans to run in LDP leadership race

A Tottori Revolution "....I'd like to see that.

I've seen vampires in old movies who look younger than the people the Japanese system throws up.

Just what the Japanese economy needs right now, a security hawk.

After the death of Shinzo Abe, the main pillar of L.D.P. that party is getting back to the chaos like those days in 1990s again. They don't have a paramount leader who can control a destructive power struggle that lead to the downfall of that country.

Is so sad that a developed nation like Japan cannot choose their own Prime Minister, instead they have to vote for mostly 1 single Party, too powerful and too influential to have any meaningful competition.

So basically Japanese people have ZERO choice in the matter of who is going to lead the Country, since the party will elect it's own representative, from the most influential and powerful members. Is like a State within a State.

You know what are form of organization have this kind of leadership? You are corect, the Mafia. Either if is the Sicilian, Yakuza or Triads...

> So basically Japanese people have ZERO choice in the matter of who is going to lead the Country, since the party will elect it's own representative, from the most influential and powerful members. Is like a State within a State.

Parliamentary democracy is its name.

Works well in pretty much the most stable democracies on earth, along with Japan : The UK, Belgium, Australia, NZ, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Singapore, and more.

Maybe not a bad guy but he ran like what, half a dozen times already? Give it a rest, some new blood should have a go , but then gain TIJ.

One thing I consider problematic with Shigeru Ishiba as a candidate for the seat of General Secretary of the LDP is that he gathered five lawmakers from Okinawa, who had been narrowly elected on a ticket of anti-Henoko relocation. The five lawmakers were seated on a row of folding chairs and chastised by Ishiba as if they were truant students. The scene was broadcast broadly by NHK.

The Henoko relocation of Futenma is what the U.S. wants and we should all toe the line to what had been dictated by the U.S., Ishiba seemed to be telling the lawmakers.

I once had a telephone call from a self-professed landowner of the Futenma air station, telling me not to publish opinions to oppose U.S. bases. He said he would lose his major source of income if bases were gone