Kishida's legacy: Scandals and compromise at home, global respect for security and diplomacy

Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a speech after Shigeru Ishiba, left, was elected as new head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo on Friday

Ishiba: Half asleep golf clap.

Kishida: Posed awkward mugging.

Woman: Unnamed , slightly constipated forced smile bow.

Japanese organizational culture in a picture.

His legacy: achieveing nothing while flying into countless photo ops around the world. Thank god I won't need to see him doing the macho walk anymore.

Just go away.

Thank you for towing the LDP line.

Meaning, you continued to enrich your backers.

Goodbye.

He failed to manage the managed decline. His masters in Washington patted him on the head. Good boy! Next!

The headline clearly says it, chaos inside the country while presenting a nice civilized image overseas, all "sotozura".

"" Government moves to try to reverse Japan’s falling birth rate involved mostly childcare allowances for married couples and didn't address the problems of the growing number of young Japanese reluctant to marry and start families ""

Falling Birth Rate and reluctant to marry is an international syndrome now, many nations are suffering from this and doing all they can trying to encourage youngster to get married and most importantly have kids but it is NOT happening.

Freedom is a PRECIOUS thing to give up for a child, more and more youngsters especially men are preferring to go it alone without starting a family due to all the Restrictions, Rules, Obligations, and lose of Freedom and opportunities.

simply men are refusing to be MULES and choosing to live FREE.

Gotta love the snears, smears and scorn from the usual players above. You could bot these guys voices very easily. Predictable, cynical to the core and dull.

Kishidas legacy will be his straight no-nonsense speaking on the world stage and his foreign policy. The fact that he got slowly torn to pieces at home for ‘doing nothing’ is more of a reflection of an inward-looking mindset from the populace, one that knows little of the complex challenges that lie ahead nor the turbulent waters just on the horizon. No real need nor motivation to find out. Complaining scratches the itch and is more than suffice. Just have a chat with someone about their politics and you will hear the sound of one hand clapping.

Let’s see how long Ishiba lasts before the same mood swings back around.

Kishidasan otsukaraesama. Those that know what you did, or at least tried to do appreciate you.

Highest inflation rate and biggest decline in the average person's standard of living in decades. None of those do-nothing PMs in the 2000s oversaw a decline like what we've had since 2020. I'm hoping that Ishiba, who is at least more of a populist than his predecessors, can do better.

Kishida, who long served as foreign minister under Abe, has won respect for his national security and foreign policies that significantly deepened ties with the United States and other partners such as Australia, the U.K., South Korea and the Philippines, while elevating the country’s international profile.

Pleaae. Abe did all the heavy lifting.

One of Kishida's diplomatic successes was Japan’s improved ties with South Korea

I think this is the single most important contribution he made.

I think this is the single most important contribution he made.

That has to do a lot more with what was convenient to the current SK government, and can change as soon as the president does.

Legacy?

What legacy?

Higher prices, lower value of yen, low salaries, more taxes and agreeing to bolster the US economy by buying military hardware Japan doesn't need.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

His legacy is the same as most PM's. Scandal, inability to improve daily life for the average guy and girl, inability to do something about the lack of newborns, a pathological desire to be relevant on the world stage but really unable to do so.

Kishida's legacy: 

Spent a lot of tax payers yen for "public" use. Accomplished nothing with it.

Got a lot of air miles due to "business" trips. Took a lot of pictures along the way.

(He or his son, it doesn't matter, which,) Bought a lot of souvenirs on said trips.

You know, when you line it up and look at it all together.............it does add up to....

a lot of wasted time and money.

masterblaster - pretty much sums it up.

shogun36 - all true.

3 years before, his government began from LDP leader election looks most ruthless regime in postwar Japan history.

Most of his public promises were not achieved, For example, the plan as if fundamentally rebuild Covid19-measures and drastically prevent risk was not executed at all. What his regime did is mere falsehood or deception that only spread fictional atmosphere as if Covid19 was ended. December 2022, PM Kishida ignored even serious situation that repeated pandemic causes overload to medical system and exhausted rescue teams causes road accident, he had enjoyed year end party with family.

Rather, domestic Covid19 deaths had been rapidly increased after the beginning of Kishida regime, many social vulnerable including my family had been victimized by incompetence and negligence of Kishida government.

His indifference to the lives of general citizen is not exception about natural disaster, their responses are always slow and insufficient.

in case of Noto peninsula quake, negligence of Kishida government clearly delayed reconstruction, disaster-related deaths after quake are more than deaths of disaster itself.

And, situation where innumerable rubbles and landslides are still untouched more expanded damages by heavy rain and flood last week. 

Double man-made disaster by Kishida government had more victimized quake-survivors, survivors who gave up reconstruction are not little.

But, even such terrible misrule or victim will be easily forgot by topics of new government at this society regrettably, even many lessons won't be learned sadly.

disrespecting the Diet, decided anything at only cabinet, many times constitutional violation, Kishida government was clearly successor of Abe government who ruined democracy one after another.