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    Yoshihide Suga: Japan’s new Prime Minister

    Tom Wilkinson-GambleBy Tom Wilkinson-GambleOctober 29, 2020No Comments2 Mins Read
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    On August 28th, Japanese Prime Minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party Shinzo Abe resigned over health concerns. Abe had been suffering from ulcerative colitis, something that had caused him to resign once before back in 2007. He became famous in both Japan and around the world as the longest-serving Prime Minister in the country’s history. He also gave his name to his government’s financial policy, nicknamed ‘Abenomics’. This was developed to combat a financial crisis, referred to as the ‘Lost Decades’, which began during the early 1990s and was caused by an asset bubble in the late 1980s.

    Abe’s resignation triggered a leadership election; both for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party and for the position of Prime Minister. There were three main candidates for the party presidency; former Minister of Defence Shigeru Ishiba, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and current Defence Minister Fumio Kishida and former Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and current Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.

    On September 14th, Suga won 377 out of 535 (70.5%) votes and became the new president of the LDP. Two days later, after Abe’s formal resignation, Suga was voted the new Prime Minister by the Imperial Diet (the Japanese parliament). This was a given, however, as the LDP have a large majority in the Japanese lower house. It is yet to be seen if Suga will continue his predecessor’s policy of ‘Abenomics’ or if he will find his own way to deal not only with the lingering impact of the Lost Decade, but with the growing problems of the COVID 19 pandemic.

     

     

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