China targets Japan with export ban
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Also part of the equation this week: China's visible pivot to another regional neighbor, South Korea, whose president spent four days in Beijing. Seoul has a bumpy history of its own with Japanese aggression and also sporadic — though generally less intense — friction with Beijing, a longtime supporter and ally of its rival North Korea.
Japan both on national and local levels -- the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's historic loss in the July House of Councillors election, which led to Japan's first female prime minister, the rise of the right-wing party Sanseito and its anti-foreigner rhetoric,
J APAN is consumed by talk of a “foreigner problem”. The story goes that the country has been overrun by ill-mannered migrant workers, misbehaving tourists and opportunistic foreign investors. But Japan’s real problem is not that it hosts too many foreigners. It is that it has too few.
Even one of the most disruptive international events since World War II — the COVID-19 pandemic — appeared to have little effect on Japan’s political stability. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won comfortably in two consecutive general elections,
The Japanese legislature, known as the Diet, is set to meet for an extraordinary session to vote for the next prime minister. The vote on Tuesday follows the collapse of a 26-year-old partnership earlier this month between the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ...
The Japanese prime minister has won plaudits at home over her tough stance towards China, but inflation remains a major voter concern.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to emulate the economic policies of her mentor Shinzo Abe, but this agenda is ill-suited for Japan's current circumstances
The end of Japan's 26-year-long ruling coalition just before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took office in October will force the cent
Yamagami Tetsuya’s trial will renew attention to the powerful effect of religious groups in Japanese politics, and the LDP’s history of opaque fundraising. Will Takaichi address those issues?
Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this does not seem to have much deterred Japan’s leaders from their course. Three related trends have fuelled what anxious Japanese have come to call the “foreigner problem”.
In 2026, Japan’s fragmented Diet will have less room to govern as economic pressures, demographic decline and regional uncertainties sharpen policy trade-offs
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