Date: 2024
Type: Article
Japan 2023 : still walking in Abe Shinzō’s footsteps
Asia Maior : the journal of the Italian Think Tank on Asia, 2023, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 65-124
PUGLIESE, Giulio, ZAPPA, Marco, Japan 2023 : still walking in Abe Shinzō’s footsteps, Asia Maior : the journal of the Italian Think Tank on Asia, 2023, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 65-124
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77084
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On the basis of a wide range of critically assessed and triangulated secondary and primary sources, including elite interviews and official documentation often in the original language, this article suggests that Japan’s domestic politics, and also its foreign and security policies, displayed a remarkable degree of continuity with the path set by the late Abe Shinzō, and thus carry his imprint. Notable exceptions are Kishida’s initiatives in the energy, economic, and fiscal realms. Amid major scandals and internal readjustments in the majority party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan’s domestic politics appear to be dominated by a single party maintaining its edge over possible adversaries in a fundamentally non-competitive democratic system. This trend has been further reinforced by growing political disaffection. Public trust in the government in 2023 was at a minimum, while surveys show that more than 40% of the Japanese electorate did not support any specific political party. Against this backdrop, however, the Kishida administration was successful in ending a long-lasting period of deflation in the Japanese economy and coming to terms with the legacy of former PM Abe Shinzō. In fact, the lasting influence of Abe lives on in the LDP’s factional balance, influencing Kishida’s policy stance.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77084
ISBN: 9791254696811; 9791254696828
ISSN: 2385-2526; 2612-6680
Publisher: Viella; University of Pavia
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