Tokyo Review
All posts tagged "Yukio Edano"
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Election 2021
What’s Next for Japan’s Opposition?
It’s hard to imagine a worse outcome for Japan’s opposition after suffering a major blow in the general election on October 31....
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Election 2021
Japan’s Opposition: Is This the Year?
The ruling LDP government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has put the party under a level of scrutiny not seen since the...
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5.8KPoliticsCOVID19: What Japan Failed to Learn from Fukushima
Comparing the responses to COVID-19 and the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns shows that Japan's government learned few lessons from the disaster nine years...
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4.1KPoliticsElection 2019: The State of the Opposition
Japan's upcoming election is unlikely to shake Shinzo Abe's grip on power - but the united front shown by the opposition parties...
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6.0KPoliticsMr. Edano Goes to Washington
Japan's opposition leader Yukio Edano met with Bernie Sanders in Washington - but how successful can a "Sanders-style" movement in Japan actually...
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5.1KPolitics2018 Preview: The Opposition
2017 was a tumultuous year for Japan’s political opposition. The Democratic Party all but collapsed after newly-elected leader Seiji Maehara dramatically announced...
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5.3KPoliticsElection 2017: Possible Outcomes
With only days to go before Japan's 2017 General Election, we assess the state of the parties and how the election seems...
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5.1KPoliticsSaving Japan’s Liberal Political Project
The disintegration of the Democratic Party threatened to end Japan's fragile liberal political alliance - but the CDP offers hope for its...
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4.7KPoliticsThe Unwanted Election’s Silver Lining
A couple of weeks ago, we ended our editorial on the forthcoming snap election with a line that came, we confess, from...
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5.2KPoliticsCan Maehara Unite Japan’s Opposition?
The Democratic Party's new leader, Seiji Maehara, faces a tough task in building an opposition coalition - but his first challenge is...
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5.4KPoliticsImagining an Effective Opposition
Japan lacks effective and coherent political opposition - but is it even possible to imagine what that might look like?
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4.2KPoliticsOpposition Chaos gives Abe Room to Breathe
Support for the government may be falling, but the shock resignation of the Democratic Party's top leadership shows that the crisis in...