2019-04-12, 10:08 | Link #582 |
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The Council on Foreign Relations released a detailed report on the Japanese Constitution and the efforts to revise it.
"Polls by the liberal Asahi, the conservative Yomiuri, and the business-oriented Nikkei reveal surprisingly similar long-term trends. There has been no upsurge in support for revision. While roughly half of the respondents are open to change, enthusiasm wanes when Japan's political leaders have other priorities. "Thus while political leaders may see the benefit of amending the constitution, the Japanese public is far more skeptical. Even popular leaders, such as Prime Minister Abe, have been unable to move the needle on public opinion when it comes to constitutional revision." https://www.cfr.org/interactive/japa...es-on-revision
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2019-04-30, 10:47 | Link #583 |
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A pictorial essay on now-former Emperor Akihito and his career.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...fe-in-pictures In October 1992, Akihito becomes the first Japanese emperor to visit China, meeting Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin in Beijing. Akihito expressed “deep sorrow” for the countries’ troubled past.
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2019-05-02, 14:40 | Link #584 | |
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How Abe has played Trump
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2019-06-04, 09:01 | Link #585 |
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The Japanese really don't like China. From a multi-national survey by Pew:
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2...ided-on-china/
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2019-07-17, 07:39 | Link #587 |
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Pew reports that immigrants constitute two percent of the populations of Japan and South Korea.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/i...ts-by-country/ Meanwhile a trade war is brewing between the two countries as Japan places restrictions on exporting chemicals used in the production of smartphones and displays. Politics, not economics, appears to be behind Japan's actions. https://qz.com/1667137/a-new-trade-w...d-south-korea/
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2019-07-18, 08:19 | Link #588 |
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More on the politics behind the trade dispute:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...al-reason-why/
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2019-07-22, 10:31 | Link #589 | |
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Shinzo Abe Declares Victory in Japan Election but Without Mandate to Revise Constitution
He will become Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister. Quote:
These were elections for the upper house of the Diet, which I believe over-represents rural areas where older voters are more numerous. I've also seen articles suggesting, not surprisingly given their historical experience, that older voters are more likely to support the pacifist aspects of the Japanese Constitution. I'm having a hard time finding those citations today.
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2019-07-23, 03:46 | Link #590 |
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It's true that (frustratingly) younger voters support Abe in higher numbers than any other demographic - kind of the opposite of what we see in the States. You have an opposition party (the CDPJ) that's strongly pro-LBGT rights, pro-working women and pro-immigration, and they disproportionately get support from voters over 60 (voters who, as a rule, are less favorably disposed towards those positions than younger voters). Is it the constitution? Apathy? Probably some combination.
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2019-08-01, 00:41 | Link #591 | |
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Quote:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/int...-films/.149514
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2019-08-02, 15:47 | Link #592 | |
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In the US, Bernie Sanders is a living example of someone who openly challenges the establishment and then gains steam from people who don't want the statu quo anymore. In Canada, there was a man named Jack Layton who used to be so good as a promoter of progressive ideas that he snatched so many votes from traditionally Liberal voters to make the New Democratic Party become the main opposition against the Conservatives; it was called the Orange Wave at the time. After Layton's death, the NDP has never been the same since. Japan needs to find its Sanders or its Layton really fast until that apathy bears long-term consequences upon the country. |
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2019-08-02, 18:08 | Link #593 |
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Sanders is polling at about 12-15% in a primary among a party that about 35% of the population considers themselves members of. Let's not get swept up in the idea that the twitter bubble image of him is relevant to his actual importance or popularity. Edano Yukio (CDPJ leader) certainly got a higher percentage of the total population's support in the Upper House elections last month.
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2019-08-02, 18:11 | Link #594 |
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Japan has what political scientists might call a "subject" or "deferential" political culture. Sure there have been limited periods of rebellion like the mid-1960s, but they have been rare and ineffective. Look at how the LDP has dominated Japan's politics for decades, with just a very brief respite a few years back that really changed nothing of substance. The maintenance of the imperial line is another example of deference to authority. Britain has similar features in its political culture that tend to shore up the Tories. Media criticism of the government also tends to be fairly restrained.
Conformity and deference to authority seem a recurring feature of Japanese education as well. A famous Japanese proverb reads, "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down."
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2019-08-27, 13:33 | Link #597 |
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Forget Putin and Kim. Trump’s real soulmate lives in Tokyo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...e-lives-tokyo/ I'll say one word in Abe's defense. He was quick to disagree publicly with Trump last weekend over the issue of North Korean missile tests. https://www.newsweek.com/japans-abe-...e-deal-1456060 Abe turned immediately to the UN Security Council resolutions on DPRK testing. Trump, having no use for international institutions, never mentioned the resolutions once. Trump was incredibly blase when Kim began testing shorter-range missiles saying essentially, "if they can't reach the US, I don't care." I wondered how these remarks went over in Japan, and in the Republic of Korea and China. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/polit...ove/index.html
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2019-11-27, 08:57 | Link #598 | |
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Abe's Giant Shredder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...948_story.html Quote:
Japan has nothing like the Presidential Records Act which requires keeping a copy of everything the President touches. This is especially hard with Trump who likes to tear up documents after reading them. The White House has a team of aides who collect the pieces and reconstruct the documents to conform to the Act. Of course, no one has ever seen the notes of the translator from one meeting with Putin that Trump tore up.
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