Japan ruling party leadership race begins with record 9 candidates

Number of candidates: 9

Number of new ideas to get Japan out of its 30-year death spiral: 0

Chance of winner of back room deal being elected in a landslide by docile electorate: 100%

Many public promises that LDP leader candidates insisting are all doubtful anymore.

3 years before, candidates had pretended to debate about their public promises as same as now.

But, public promises that present PM Kishida who was selected 3 years before achieved is zero.

They only want advantageous "face" of their party at general election, have no interest to citizen facing many difficulties.

Quantity,or quality?

Polls suggest Koizumi with a lead over Ishiba. The LDP, the majority party, decides the head of the party that will become the new prime minister (citizens do not get to vote directly in this election.)

Given that the wisdom of older experienced politicians’ policies have shaped the stagnant economy that has not performed well over the last three decades, why continue to go with the old guard and not step aside and give someone else a chance?

Same policy different face for LDP. Noda the worst of all of them is running for CDP president.

I’ve been paying closer attention – well, any attention is closer attention – to the LDP leadership contest this time around because it’s clear that there is a Japanese faction that wants to break from US control and align with the sovereign BRICS nations. However, it’s now evident that the leading candidate is not aligned with that faction.

Japan’s former Environment Minister and leading prime ministerial candidate Shinjiro Koizumi said he would respect the central bank’s independence in setting monetary policy if he is chosen to lead the country, according to a television program on Wednesday.

“I will respect the Bank of Japan’s independence,” Koizumi was quoted as saying in the BS 11 program, adding that he would focus on ensuring smooth dialogue and communication between the government and the central bank.

He ranked as the most favored candidate to become the next LDP leader in a poll taken by the Nikkei newspaper on Aug 21-22, followed by former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

If you don’t see the connection, read Richard Werner’s Princes of the Yen. An independent central bank is always reliable evidence of a nation’s submission to Clown World.

Sooner or later, the Japanese will decide the decline of US naval power is sufficient to go their own way, at which time it will be a very, very bad time to be a foreigner in Japan, if the last time the Japanese decided to break with foreign influences is any guide.

Everyone has ambitions but ambition itself is not policy. Economic policy is not easy to implement because you start out going one direction and before you know it, you’re going a different direction.

Added to this, the bureaucrats look down upon you. You’re just a temporary elected leader, the bureaucrats are permanent.

Kono has been the minister of this and that. Jack of all trades and master of none LDP cabinet ministers have no power over and do not scare the bureaucrats. They’ll just wait them out.

If just one of them were to actually focus on the aging crisis and take some proactive steps like increasing childcare options and programs as well as introducing income tax rate deductions based on how many children there are per household, that candidate would win in a landslide. You want the next generation to take back the countryside and revitalize the nation? Make favorable conditions for the parents of that next generation to exist and thrive in it's earliest and most important years.

Well, for crying out loud. Everyone knows that Japan has the worst politicians in the entire world. The best of them are so bad who'd vote for them? Why even post anything here? You KNOW Japanese politicians are the worst.