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© Thomson Reuters 2022.Inflation to nuclear power: What's at stake in Japan's election
By Elaine Lies TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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thepersoniamnow
Inflation is set by local governments last I checked.
Ercan Arisoy
LDP has won the confidence of most people throughout years. Young generations want some change. Yet, Japan will vote most probably in favour of stability in such difficult international circumstances.
BigP
No (proper) Opposition Party. No change!
And, I suspect that the Japanese like it that way.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Kishida will continue to raise prices for everything and more new tax laws and lead the country out of its peaceful pacifist constitution and into wars.
Less freedom and Less safety and Less healthcare.
dagon
That includes plans to soften the blow from oil prices via subsidies to gasoline wholesalers and other measures
Next up in the LDP New capitalism:
To raise wages an increase in the consumption tax to subsidize companies to maybe give the staff a raise.
The LDP worked toward inflation for decades.
It inflates their rentier assets.
Their interests are not congruent with the public, in true oligarchical fashion.
Cricky
Quality of life? Should be No1, fix the other crap after getting a quality of life first. But I’m not sponsored by big business so I have no say.
noriahojanen
The opposition parties are at stake. Incompetent ones will be voted out.
James
Well last election only 45% of the nation voted so that would mean they have 30% of voters support. Yep that sounds about the total support for LDP nationwide.
Now make sure you listen to the LDP media propaganda of the year "opposition are weak"
I hope Japan will wake up sometime soon but I just don't see it happening.
Lindsay
It’s not an election? It’s a farce! There is no opposition to the LDP and the majority of the 50% of people who vote are LDP fanatics. Campaign platforms mean nothing when the verdict is already clear.
Yrral
People vote against their interest,based on their self delusional beliefs
Guy-Gin
Utterly pointless election. The LDP has basically been in power bar one blip since the war. How is that a level playing ground. Any other nation it would be considered a dictatorship. Generations of previous youths and even todays 40-50yr olds have no interest in politics and simply don’t vote or they go with the flow and vote LDP if they do. No credible opposition to a one horse race. The whole political system needs overhauling.
Eastman
there is nothing in stake.
japanese elections are jut parody when winner is known well in advance.
there is no any change for good in sight at all.
same ldp same oyaji same rhetoric,same zero progress for decades
Aly Rustom
THIS!!!
noriahojanen
Ignorant and prejudiced. The LDP is far from a unitary party. The LDP has its serious opposition within, as LDP lawmakers hold different/conflicting views and different supporters.
Besides, by key opinion surveys the majority of Japanese voters regardless of age, sex or other variables have expressed disappointment with the opposition outside the LDP. They are more pragmatic.
Randy Johnson
Inflation to nuclear power: What's at stake in Japan's election
Nothing, literally nothing is at stake in any so-called election in japan.
This headline is shameless hype.
Jtsnose
[Photo above] - reminds me of skewered grilled food, made so well by some Japanese restaurants . . . .
WhiskeyGalore
I note that opening the borders to foreign tourists is not one of the major issues of this election.
Rodney
No change, just life will be worse. Buy solar panels and grow your own vegetables. Weekends, go fishing.