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Yubaru
You can complain all you want, and you know it will be "soon" but the odds of you winning enough seats to make a difference are somewhere between slim and none!
mariasjapan
instead of dissolving the lower house may be it would be better to dissolve his s term!
smithinjapan
Yeah, now that the Olympics have passed and we're going on two years since Corona first started up, why not start focussing?
Sven Asai
If you ever need an example for difference of talking and then contradicting practically doing, above is a good one, if not the ‘best’ ever.
Extra Virgin Palm Oil
Foreigner in Tokyo-san, Over the past year (and a half) I have I often struggled to explain my frustration at the leadership in Japan, and you have summed it up perfectly.
No one wants to be responsible for making a wrong choice, but there is also a responsibility when leaders' procrastination leaves few or no good choices.
Bungle
“Only the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.”
Oscar WildeMr Kipling
It doesn't matter what his approval rating is. The vast majority of those who bother to vote in Japan will vote LDP regardless of any scandals, poor performance or popularity. Much of Japan still has a feudal mindset so vote accordingly.
James
Well regardless if the main opposition party is voted in they will still get stuck due to The current House of Councilors being controlled by the LDP meaning every attempt to pass any laws which still needs to go through them and like they did in 2009 to the DPJ, they will just delay any bills from going to a vote making it expire and never being returned to the House of Representatives to be vetoed.
I still think we should vote them out but we are not done with LDP just because we vote them out of government. we have to also vote them out of the House of councilors before we can see any real changes.
GW
Wow, just like koike, once the games were cancelled in March 2020 she SUDDENLY was all about "dealing"" with covid...and then proceeded to NOT deal with it!
Now we have suga when the para games are on the verge of ending, now SUDDENLY be all about ""dealing"" with covid...my $$ is on he still doesnt do a damned thing for the people of his country, for shame!
Pierre LeVenerable
Great, we need you Suga-san. You are doing a good job in these difficult times.
Richard Gallagher
Well. That's convenient. What is he going to do? Volunteer at a SARSCoV-2 clinic?
happyhere
Lot more going on behind-the-scenes here than the Kyodo article tells us. Nikai is not happy to be getting the boot and Aso is now calling for Suga's head. Suga may be taking some big ones down with him. Got something right for once.
https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14431039
Ashley Shiba
He needs to dissolve the diet in order to focus on the COVID response? Is he not doing that now? They report numbers of positive cases which are not the true numbers. Why? Because all these private clinics that do PCR testing DO NO reveal their numbers due to privacy laws. Other areas of Japan the numbers are rising, however, here in Tokyo the numbers are going down and you cannot say because it is the vaccine roll out. People from other parts of Kanto are entering Tokyo to get a vaccine, example, my friend from Kashiwa went to Otemachi to get her vaccine. Suga and all who are around him are a hot mess, and we need a fresh face like the Osaka governor who is young and on his game.
cleo
translation: ‘No way I can face the electorate with my approval ratings in the mid-twenties.’
ZENJI
Mr Suga. You Allow the "Games" but you will not be prepared to allow a much-needed Nation Election.
The Country comes "FIRST". Petty Politics has NO PLACE in a Pandemic.
Aly Rustom
Suga rules out dissolving lower house soon so he can focus on COVID response
So he can focus on seeing how much more damage he can do to the country on the way down.
Aly Rustom
mariasjapan
Or his party altogether!
Northernlife
Just quit Suga nobody will miss you and make sure that Abe thing doesn't come back...
shogun36
You mean something that should have been the number one priority since he took over office?
Yeah, I guess. I mean, what has he been doing since?
Doc
God help Japan. The Geriatric-in-Chief is extending the reign of error.