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Many of the originals haven’t been around for a while —

This is a BBC report from December, 2023 on the corruption scandal going on within Kishida’s tenure as PM and much further back in time — 

Japan: Corruption scandal threatens PM Kishida’s government

Japan is going through a “once in a generation” political crisis, analysts say, as the government fights to clean up its image in the face of a corruption scandal.

His approval ratings are down to 17% – the worst in over a decade.

Public anger and outrage has boiled over on social media.

Some hope this could be a tipping point for reforms in governance. But others note it’s the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the spotlight – the party that has ruled Japan almost continuously since 1955.

Its time in power has long been marked by similar scandals- one reason why analysts say voters in the leading Asian democracy are feeling disillusioned and cynical.

Swamp-draining in Japanese politics?

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A reminder to readers that Covid vaccine criminality and harms, as well as WHO tyranny, are undergoing major exposure in Japan (see here for 3 more articles). In the tweet below, the speaker says that ‘Japan’ has apologized to the public about the vaccines. We’re not sure it’s actually ‘Japan’ but certainly one former member of the government has stepped up to apologize.

Japan’s Former Minister for Internal Affairs Apologizes During Massive Protest Against WHO

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to Step Down | The Liberty Beacon

Sean covers a fair bit of relevant ground here about Covid vaccine technology, and refers to a Japanese study we recently published here —

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Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will step down in September

Kishida will not seek re-election as the leader of the ruling LDP in party elections next month.

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced he will not seek re-election as the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in next month’s party polls, in a decision that means the country will also have a new prime minister.

Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, Kishida said it was time for a new face at the helm of the LDP and that he would fully support their leadership.

“In this election, it is necessary to show the people that the LDP is changing and the party is a new LDP,” Kishida told reporters.

“For this, transparent and open elections and free and vigorous debate are important. The most obvious first step to show that the LDP will change is for me to step aside. I will not be running in the forthcoming presidential election.”

Kishida had informed senior administration officials of his intention not to run, Japanese media including national broadcaster NHK reported earlier.

Kishida was elected party president in September 2021 for a three-year term and won a general election shortly afterwards.

But his approval ratings have fallen sharply amid a major corruption scandal within the LDP surrounding unreported political funds raised through tickets sold for party events. More than 80 LDP lawmakers, mostly belonging to a major party faction previously led by assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have been caught up in the scandal and 10 people – lawmakers and their aides – were indicted in January.

“He’s been a dead man walking for quite some time,” Michael Cucek, an expert in Japanese politics at Tokyo’s Temple University, told the Reuters news agency. “Public discontent with Kishida was connected with the LDP’s entanglements with the former Unification Church, which became apparent after Abe’s assassination, as well as slush fund scandals, and the slide in the yen that increased inflation pressures.”

Whoever wins the race for party leader will face a raft of challenges as they take on the job of prime minister, which goes to the leader of the party with the most seats in parliament.

Kenta Izumi, the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party, the country’s main opposition party, noted that the issues which had caused trouble for Kishida has not gone away.

“These problems are still unsolved,” he wrote on social media platform X.

Kishida, a former foreign minister with a reputation as a consensus builder, took on the top job from Yoshihide Suga who was criticised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Under Kishida, Japan pledged to double its defence spending to the NATO standard of two percent of GDP by 2027.

This marked a turn from decades of strict pacifism, encouraged by the United States amid concern about China’s increasingly assertive stance in the Asia Pacific.

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