Kishida dogged by domestic scandals on international trip

Shinzo Abe is widely hated by the Japanese but he is widely loved by foreigners. It is just really simple!

From the Abe era onward, Japan has been cutting barriers to allow foreign elites to own and control Japan economically.

The best recipient of such an age is probably the Unification Church. Moonies are still receiving funds from LDP and the Japanese government after defrauding many innocent Japanese citizens.

Shinzo Abe ... is widely loved by foreigners.

Is he?

stressed the need for bold leadership at a time of increasing global upheaval.

"I believe the only way for the ... cabinet to govern stably is by taking these issues head on, without running away," Kishida said.

Kishida quoting from his self-improvement book "How to be a Leader" with meaningless phrases that have no relation to the comfortable cronyism that is the LDP leadership style.

Shinzo Abe is widely hated by the Japanese but he is widely loved by foreigners. It is just really simple!

Don't know too much about how Japanese politics works it seems. If Abe was "widely hated" as you state, pray tell how he managed to keep his poll numbers so high, AND become the longest serving PM in Japanese history?

YubaruToday  07:52 am JST

"Shinzo Abe is widely hated by the Japanese but he is widely loved by foreigners. It is just really simple!"

Don't know too much about how Japanese politics works it seems. If Abe was "widely hated" as you state, pray tell how he managed to keep his poll numbers so high, AND become the longest serving PM in Japanese history?

A perceived lack of better alternatives both in the opposition parties and within the LDP, and the ease of winning general elections without an effective and organised opposition. Anyway, his poll numbers took hits every time there was a corruption scandal, e.g.

"Public distrust of the Abe administration has reached an all-time high, with Shinzo Abe’s approval rating falling to 27 percent over the weekend according to media polls. Public support has fallen by 17 percentage points in six weeks, down from a 44 percent rating in an early April media poll."

https://thediplomat.com/2020/05/abes-popularity-plummets-amid-latest-controversy/

I think "tolerated" is closer to the mark than "widely hated."

Why should he care? He’s enjoying sitting at the World top table (only Asian) with a credit card with no limit, and in true LDP autocracy, when things get too uncomfortable, he can just pass the baton to Kono.

"I believe the only way for the ... cabinet to govern stably is by taking these issues head on, without running away," Kishida said.

In other words I don't care what the polls show, I am here to stay.

Kishida dogged by domestic scandals on international trip

I fail to see the connection between the LDP's scandals and Kishida's overseas trip. The A couple of resigning ministers have nothing to do with China, N. Korea, Russia or the fragile economy. or am I missing something obvious here.

The summits with China and South Korea marked the first leadership-level meetings in three years, and have come amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, and in the Taiwan Strait, and the East China Sea.

Work more to make alliances with your neighbors, strengthen your region and stop being a US colony..

Kishida is just another of the privileged political elite that have little in common nor do they wish to have,with the average Japanese.

Why are Japanese politicians continually accepting dodgy funding,misusing public funding,supporting abusive groups and failing to lead by example on climate change issues amongst others?

Most of the above would lead to expulsion from employment, loss of income or a court appearance for the majority, would it not?

The only logical conclusion is that the state itself is corrupt and a failure!

Complete overhaul is necessary…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's struggled on Saturday to shake off domestic scandals that have undermined his approval ratings even as he stressed the need for bold leadership...

Well, when he finds someone that can actually be a LEADER, tell him to let us know.

because it sure as heck isn't him.

obladiToday  09:23 am JST

Kishida dogged by domestic scandals on international trip

I fail to see the connection between the LDP's scandals and Kishida's overseas trip. The A couple of resigning ministers have nothing to do with China, N. Korea, Russia or the fragile economy. or am I missing something obvious here.

Yes, it looks as if you are. It's Kishida's administration and what happens in Japan is still his responsibility no matter where he happens to be at any given time. If allegations of corruption and incompetence will keep coming up even when the prime minister is abroad the Japanese media are perfectly entitled to bring them up with him. He should not be allowed to evade the issue.

I don't agree that cleaning up LDP would be seen as a negative thing by foreign leaders. It is a necessity for Japan to be taken seriously. Though, Japan should be ashamed for its human rights violations, where it should be put in the same corner as China and Russia. The treatment of foreigners in the so called detention centers leading to several deaths, police injecting black foreigners with Ketamine etc. are no better than communist era KGB, or Chinese concentration camps!

Entrenched centralized power is a danger to everybody and the unwanted result of such circumstances is plain to see.

Shinzo Abe is widely hated by the Japanese but he is widely loved by foreigners. It is just really simple!

Septim Dynasty- This is the first time ever that I have to disagree strongly with what you said about the above. True Shinzo Abe is widely hated by the Japanese - but to say that he is widely loved by foreigners???

I have to disagree with that comment. I don't know 1 foreigner that likes him. I'd say he was more disliked among the foreign community than the Japanese one