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By Mari Yamaguchi TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Japan Violet
I can't want for this agenda to be put into revolutionary change action!
sakurasuki
It's likely to be similar his predecessor
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-shadow-shogun-abe-assured-clout-over-next-pm-kishida-2021-09-30/
Good
That's very thoughtful of him
HIROSHI TAKABAYASHI NACAYAMA
I just hope that this new Japanese government opens up to us Sansei descendants of Brazil. We've been almost a year without any news.
dbsaiya
The three main agenda points goes without saying, are we supposed to be impressed? I read in the paper that the avg age of Kishida's cabinet is older than Suga's by one year, so don't get your hopes up in thinking that Kishida is thinking about any type of reform. Finally, this club is still run by the AA faction, aka as Abe & Aso. Enjoy.
dagon
He also pledged to push through with a large-scale recovery package to support those hit by the pandemic.
If past performance is any indicator of future actions with the LDP, this refers not to the many struggling workers with precarious jobs but hotel and restaurant chain owners.
Another round of GoTo subsidies and promotional contracts for Dentsu to support those "hard hit" but still have the money for discretionary travel and spending?
John-San
Kishida is just another slippery politician. Today middle class is not the same middle class as pre 2000,s. The middle class of yesterday is the higher lower class of today which is a much larger % of the population then today’s middle class. Today middle is the smallest-% of the Japanese society. The only way to kick start Japan economy to rise the basic wage to 1500 yen a hour.
John Noun
It's like the walking dead in suits.
Booooo to them all.
kwatt
Japan remains same as before whoever became a LDP prime minister and other ministers. New prime minister will follow same/similar policies that ex-prime ministers made/did. If opposition party became ruling party, it would be a big difference.
Sven Asai
@John-San That’s hopefully only an ironic joke from you. It’s maybe sufficient not to die the same day and keep the very basic organ functions or life essentials for some months, but surely still not good for consumption, marriage, raising children, house building and all such or even what you called an economy kick start. lol But I would agree on your words about so-called middle class, which is of course nowadays almost not existing and more wish or a phantasy description.
Kobe White Bar Owner
Wow the very definition of vitality! I weep for the future.
William77
Look like a picture of the last early century.
Even their clothes are outdated,these dinosaurs still lives with an early Showa mentality.
It’s like having a time machine and revert to almost a hundred years.
kenshin_u
Have you read the Rikken DPJ's manifesto? Not only are those policies unfeasible, but only the top 10% of the wealthy and corporations will be taxed two or three times as much, and the Japanese economy will plummet to the bottom. This is the kind of stupid policy that experts laugh at. That's why the opposition party's approval rating is only in single digits.
kenshin_u
I think it is ridiculous to have a vaccine passport when the effectiveness of the vaccine decreases drastically after six months, but this is something that Western countries are more actively considering than Japan.
Nevertheless, I think it is necessary to continue to increase the number of people vaccinated with regard to vaccines, so I would like to keep an eye on the situation. However, this is not a problem that can be solved by increasing the number of tests, so rather than investing in this, I think it would be better to focus on the development of therapeutic drugs, as Takaichi argued.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
They all look so British in the Photo.
Lets see what kishida and his group can accomplish in the next few weeks.
browny1
Another Penguin Parade.
Just this time the OB brigade has added a few Wrens for pictorial composition.
What a joke.
AramaTaihenNoYouDidnt
Heard the same song and dance before...you ain't kidding anyone Mr. Kishida.
Once you rise to power, we become obsolete.
voiceofokinawa
A piece of big news that cannot be let to go unchallenged.
Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has criticized severely the way the LDP leader vote was conducted. Big money flowed underneath behind the door to elect Secretary General, according to Chunichi Sports: 10/05/2021).
James
funny how a lot of them had to dye their hair to make themselves look younger...
shogun36
Well.
Let's see the actions there, buddy.
We've heard enough talk and "promises" for decades already.
fxgai
Pssst…. you can actually vote for someone else if you voters can be bothered…
Simon Foston
kenshin_uToday 10:41 am JST
Why? I thought those corporations and rich folks were sitting on huge hoards of cash they were doing nothing with.
I thought LDP apologists liked to make out it's because all they do is criticise the government. Do you really think the average voter cares if people richer than him or her pays more tax?
CrashTestDummy
Pukey2
I'm glad you wrote college-dropout, otherwise I wouldn't know who you were referring to. Just saying nepotism could refer to practically all the LDP politicians.
vanityofvanities
They are almost all small potatoes. Without help of Japanese bureaucrats, they cannot do anything.
paddletime
Just another puppet ran by the dinosaur puppet masters, nothing will change
kenshin_u
As corporations and the wealthy flee overseas, the economy worsens, and who will have to pay for the loss of tax revenue? Even the average person can imagine that. It's up to the general public to bear the burden.
gakinotsukai
I was looking for "transparency" and "democracy" to replace "money" and "weapons".
But, from LDP, i'm not disappointed
voiceofokinawa
Looking at the picture of newly installed male ministers in anachronistic attire, I cannot help but suspect how many of them are wearing their own tailcoats. Haven't most of them had rented the coats at a rental shop in the Ginza or Kasumigazeki?
Hope their execution of policy won't be likewise anachronistic.
Simon Foston
kenshin_uToday 03:13 pm JST
As a CDPJ victory is already pretty much a hypothetical scenario, in that case I would like to see other countries taxing corporations and wealthy more so that they had nowhere to flee to.
I doubt the average person is even aware that the CDPJ has a manifesto.
Right now, you mean? Because the government is scared of upsetting rich and powerful people? It's lucky for the LDP that they can't really lose, with a message like that they'd be in trouble.
kenshin_u
Their claims based on their manifesto are broadcasted daily by the mass media. Also, we have already experienced their policies when they were the ruling party.
It's always the public that ultimately bears the brunt of failed economic policies, right? In fact, isn't it? I think this is true not only in Japan, but worldwide.
kenshin_u
I don't know what kind of situation you mean by making it impossible for companies to escape. Companies and wealthy individuals will flee countries where their business and investment activities are crippled. I have seen news about Chinese companies trying to go public in the U.S. and being sanctioned by Chinese companies just to keep them from going abroad....
kenshin_u
I've seen news that some Chinese companies have been sanctioned by the Chinese government...
Simon Foston
kenshin_uToday 08:54 pm JST
I doubt if anyone's paying much attention. They're probably not even going to have a candidate in my area.
That was actually a different party but I'm not surprised you brought it up.
It's certainly true in Japan. However, there's only really one party that can take any responsibility for that and due to the weakness of the opposition they never have to.
kenshin_uToday 09:04 pm JST
I never said "impossible." If, speaking purely hypothetically, most other developed countries imposed high taxes on corporations and the wealthy, there would be no benefit to relocating. However that's as likely to happen as the CDPJ winning an election heavily skewed in the LDP's favour.
Simon Foston
kenshin_uOct. 5 09:05 pm JST
Any excuse for an anti-Chinese or anti-Korean diatribe, right?
voiceofokinawa
In conjunction with my comment of Oct. 5 12:40 pm JST:
It seems vote buying has been a very common practice in the election of LDP's Secretary General. This irregularity is not subject to an investigation under Political Funds Control Act because it’s the LDP's internal affairs per se. It’s unknown which faction in the party used dirty money most for vote buying.
Remember, though, that LDP Secretary General is eventually to become Prime Minister of Japan. It's no exaggeration, then, that successive Japanese Prime Ministers have been voted in by a small group of LDP members through vote buying and bribery.
Apparently, Japan is not a democracy but a plutocracy. The election system must be renovated. Prime Minister should be elected by general voting.