Japan’s Prime Minister Steps Down: What Next?

Japan needs a prime minister like Hideki Tojo to turn the country around

Russia can't even successfully invade mini-Russia. I wouldn't worry about them.

nothing will change in Japan sadly considering that the LDP holds a monopoly over politics in Japan

Free speech is Illegal content now ?

And a few years later, China will claim Everest as part of its own territory since ancient times and that those drones were actually Chinese settlers.

Somehow Japan keeps acting surprised when the LDP continues to be corrupt.

Is this year the leaders switching season?

Among the younger contenders I will also add that polling among the public does look good for Shinjiro Koizumi, Former Environment Minister and Son of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. However this is a party internal battle in which public polling does not play as much of a role.

Japan's politics is the worst thing about the nation, but most people don't really know how bad it is. I'll just say that most of Japan's current issues have all to do with the politics they have. It's not culture, it's not because Japan is different in some way, it's not people – it's their representatives.

It altogether have major major corruption scandals that are far more than the recent ones cited, it has created a culture of accepted abandonment and total disinterest in politics by the younger Japanese electorate, it has set back the country on several key cultural and societal issues, and for those who don't know, it even has partial responsibility on the Fukushima disaster case. Not official, because of course the justice that is aligned to the party decided to absolve it. But you can read it in several news pieces – Government corruption along with Tepco corruption was the cause of the meltdown, not the tsunami. Both had 10 years worth or warnings that such a scenario could happen. Their decision not to act on it was just that – a decision.

Any problem you might think about modern Japan goes back to it. Low birthrates? It has all to do with the incapability of making necessary changes due to politicians being all old conservative men who don't understand the problem or refuse to understand it properly. The rigidity in traditional Japanese businesses? Same. Inflexibility in economics? Same. Harebrained decisions regarding immigration, tourism, welfare and whatnot? Same. How retrograde Japan is regarding LGBTQ issues? Same. How sexist the culture remains? Same.

There is no proper representation in Japanese politics for the categories of the Japanese population that needs it the most, and it really shows. I've said it before and I'll say it again – you want better chances of reverting the low birthrate problem with proper government incentive and programs? Just put a young woman who really understand the issue on the job. It boggles the mind that the country as a whole is so worried about that, and it cannot see the most glaring issue in it all – that politics, management and leadership positions, representative positions and whatnot are all majorly if not solely composed of old male dudes who are so disconnected from the problem they can only think about solving the problem by doing small symbolic and idiotic governmental programs that anyone with half a brain would've seen a mile away that they'd all be completely ineffective.

You know the idiosyncratic weird way how Japan's tech sector seem paralyzed 30+ years ago or something like that, with all the anecdotes about still using fax machines and floppy disks? This has all to do with how government operates things. Or on how extremely bureaucratic, paper based, and weirdly full of red tape lots of things still are in Japan? Same.

Their rotting frozen in time brain also cannot even consider larger immigration policies to prop up the absolute lack of workforce that the country has been facing for several years now. And the government with it's hierarchical traditionalist immobile structure also not only is partially responsible for the Fukushima disaster, it also consequentially created a nuclear scare that only worsened the recession state of Japanese economy.

If Japan is not able to change it's politics after all of that, it's bound to have an ending much like their politicians. Stuck in old ways, of old age, in total mental decline. If on the next cycle the LDP continues in power with yet another politician that could be replaced anytime with their predecessors no one would notice, it's bound to continue as clueless as it currently is. Time is running out.

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The LDP has been the majority by a large number in the Japanese Diet since 1949… With that, it's not uncommon for them to change their PM yearly or sometimes a couple times in a year. Such a weird system, but I guess it somehow works.

It feels like only yesterday that Kishida was the great hope to replace Suga. Hopefully the Japanese people get the point and turf the LDP out. They're corrupt to the core.

Russia ALWAYS had a plan to fire nukes from its navy. Not just from ships, submarines too, including gigantic nuclear-armed torpedoes, and an autonomous nuclear-armed, nuclear-propulsion UUV. Question is – why is this in the news today? Who benefits from inciting fear from the Russians? What kind of action does this propaganda prepare?

Are they gonna bring the bodies on Everest as well?

Japan’s problems will never change until they have a fixed election date and vote for a different party. The cycle has has always been to get rid of the prime minister instead of the party. The older generation is too conservative and out of touch with reality.

Konami kept implying Hideo Kojima killed Abe Shinzo

So youre telling us Elon is once again going to face zero consequences for his actions much like his newest idol

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Being a leader is really stressful

That is Brilliant.