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© Thomson Reuters 2023.Riding on G7 success, Kishida eyes early election
By Elaine Lies and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Moonraker
Surely nobody in Japan is gonna fall for Kishida's ruse. Everyone will see through it, surely.
wallace
The Russians do not have nuclear weapons in Belgorod. A city recently bombed twice by the Russians and now an attack by the Freedom for Russia Legion. Numbers a few hundred diehards, battle-hardened Russian volunteers fighting their own people as part of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Yubaru
Sarcasm runs deep in this one!
Yubaru
Please. What was "successful" about the G-7? No incidents?
dbsaiya
Exactly, who deemed this a success?
diagonalslip
now there's a surprise.....
funny! i seem to recall him saying thee's no way he'd call an election, reiterated on Sunday, according to this article. so much for 'democracy'... public opinion can change from day to day....
FrenchFox
Japan did a great job hosting the G7.
Simon Foston
FrenchFoxToday 09:17 am JST
So what. That kind of thing is quite easy to do well. It doesn't really make anyone much better off, though. It doesn't equate to doing a great job running a country.
桜川雪
Early election. Hmm, wonder which party will win (sarc)
TokyoLiving
No more Kishi..
browny1
Calling an early election should be a last course of action when serious problems cause an inability of the govt to function or carry out it's duties for the betterment of the people.
In such cases the election is to ensure a mandate to continue the fight.
Riding on a "constructed" popularity wave to intentionally stretch your elected term from 4 years to 6 is disingenuous in the least. It's the method that Abe and other LDP leaders have used as a seemingly normal, accepted manner to stay in power.
That Kishida is even considering it should attract lots of negative attention by media, politicians, officials and the citizenry in general.
Will have to wait and see if that develops.
ian
Those that matter
shogun36
A flurry of fickle fools in Japan for sure.
Or bogus polling. Take your pick.
Fredrik
They successfully agreed to let Xi take care of the Ukraine conflict...
Otherwise, any improvements seen in Japan during Kishida's tenure? Hmm...
Hideomi Kuze
Military assistance, restraint toward China, environment, AI and so, those would have been agreed no matter how place is Hiroshima or not. Agreement that symbolizes "holding at Hiroshima" was nothing, leaders' visiting to Hiroshima atomic bomb museum was not reflected to something. But, such pretended politics show helps Kishida Govt in Japan. And, obedient Japanese mainstream media with fearing political pressure avoided to all criticize about Summit, cheered leaders from overseas as if talent, don't mention even existence of protestres itself at all, politics section reporters ballooned imagination to PM or Summit favorably, had fabricated atmosphere as if Kishida Govt succeeded Summit.
Moskollo
Excuse me for not being high on the fumes of the market high making bubble economy levels, but this does not feel like we are living the luxury of that era, if anything it feels like the cost of living is going up, but wages are staying at a 2012 level..
fxgai
No tax hikes, no “social insurance premium” hikes either.
The Japan Innovation Party is rightly showing strength, because rather than spend more money all the time, they seem to be keen to cut useless spending to make room for higher priority spending.
That’s hardly a “conservative” idea either, since the LDP has racked up 250% of GDP on useless spending, and they are considered “conservative”.
Praying for an election based on policy, rather than cheap slogans and yoroshikus
Lindsay
This bloke is just another LDP balloon full of hot air. What kind of fool promises to spend 5 trillion yen on child care (every year) with no idea where the money is gonna come from? Do people actually buy into the crap spouted by LDP leaders? I guess they do coz they keep voting for them. Well, the 35% of the population who vote do anyway.
fxgai
What kind of fools keep voting for the same ridiculous policies.
Come to think of it, Japan’s 6th graders are educated well enough to be able to do a better job than this, but the fools keep voting for foolish policy. And here we are, 250% debt to gdp, inflation above target….
smithinjapan
He'll do it, he'll win, then he'll implement all the things people are against, including tax hikes to fund defense spending that no one wants, and he'll say it was mandated by the election.
Simon Foston
fxgaiMay 23 04:29 pm JST
It's hardly a surprise that you are yet again extolling the virtues of the Japan Innovation Party, but seriously - what strength? When it comes to a general election they had better have enough money to fund challengers for every LDP candidate or they are not worth any attention, no matter how good their policies might seem.
Even then, there are enough well entrenched LDP, CDPJ, DPP and JCP Diet members who will never lose their seats that the Japan Innovation Party has very little chance of winning an outright majority. They will be forced into an ineffectual coalition, and coalition partners and bureaucrats will make sure their manifesto gets kicked into the long grass. All in all I find it very hard to muster quite as much enthusiasm for these people as you have and unfortunately, I think the LDP are going to win no matter when Kishida calls the election.