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Abe Shinzo One Year On: What Have We Learned?
Michael CucekResearch Associate, MIT Center of International StudiesAdjunct Fellow, TUJ - ICAS
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“Abe and the LDP: A New Era of Stability?”
( 28 February 2013 )
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NHK Cabinet Support Ratings
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Special Designated Secrets Act
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“A New Era of Stability?” – What Could Go Wrong
• Reversal of Market Sentiment
• Scandals
• International Incident
• Internal Dissension
• Policy Overreach
( 28 February 2013 )
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Nikkei 225 Index
Abe Shinzo elected president of the LDP
Images courtesy: Prime Minister’s Residence homepage
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Yen vs. Dollar vs. Euro vs. Dollar
Abe Shinzo elected president of the LDP
Image courtesy: Tsuchiya Atsushi
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Foot In Mouth Disease
May 2013 JRP Co-leader Hashimoto Toru says “comfort women” were necessary for calming hopped up soldiers and suggests that U.S. personnel on Okinawa become regular patrons of Okinawan sexuals services establishments
July 2013 Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso Taro muses to a revisionist audience about a supposed quiet demise of the liberal Weimar Constitution and wonders “Is there not something we could learn from the experience”?
Image courtesy: Tokyo Shimbun
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The Immaculate Deflection
Tokuda TakeshiLDP, Kagoshima District #2
Inose NaokiGovernor, Tokyo Metropolitan District
Image courtesy: The Asahi Shimbun
Image courtesy: Sankei Biz
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International Incident
23 November 23, 2013
China ADIZ announcement
Image courtesy: The Asahi Shimbun Image courtesy: The New York Times
1 January 2014Chinese balloonist attempts landing on Senkakus, ditches.JCG, China Coast Guard and
Taiwanese authorities cooperate to save and
repatriate him
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“A New Era of Stability?” – What Could Go Wrong
• Reversal of Market Sentiment
• Scandals
• International Incident
• Internal Dissension
• Policy Overreach
( 28 February 2013 )
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“A New Era of Stability?” – What Could Go Right
• A Moribund DPJ
• A By-passed JRP
• Proper policy mix
• The Third Way
( 28 February 2013 )
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“What Have We Learned?”
• Ability to Work A Calendar
• Theatricality
• Ability To Reverse
• Patience
• Performance
• Brutality
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“What Have We Learned?”
• Ability to Work A Calendar
• Theatricality
• Ability To Reverse
• Patience
• Performance
• Brutality
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“What Have We Learned?”
• Ability to Work A Calendar
• Theatricality
• Ability To Reverse
• Patience
• Performance
• Brutality
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“What Have We Learned?”
• Ability to Work A Calendar
• Theatricality
• Ability To Reverse
• Patience
• Performance
• Brutality
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Oops, I Did It Again
April 23, 2013
Abe stumbles through Maruyama Katsuya’s questions regarding implications of “escape from the postwar regime” and the “misaken policies” clause in the Maruyama Statement
Screen capture courtesy: House of Councillors Television
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Oops, I Did It Again…Again
Heisei Emperor and EmpressFirst Official Sovereignty Day Ceremony
April 28, 2013
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Oops, I Did It Again…Again…Again
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo wearing jersey # 96Ceremony Bestowing People’s Honor Awards on Nagashima Shigeo and Matsui Hideki
6 May 2013
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“What Have We Learned?”
• Ability to Work A Calendar
• Theatricality
• Ability To Reverse
• Patience
• Performance
• Brutality
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“What Have We Learned?”
• Ability to Work A Calendar
• Theatricality
• Ability To Reverse
• Patience
• Performance
• Brutality
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“What Have We Learned?”
• Ability to Work A Calendar
• Theatricality
• Ability To Reverse
• Patience
• Performance
• Brutality
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The Tyranny Of The Numbers
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LDP293
New Komeito31
DPJ56
Yui7
Communist8
People's Life7
Socialist2
Independents14
JRP53
Your Party9
House of Representatives – The Parties
Number of seats needed for supermajority = 320
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LDP114
New Komeito20
DPJ58
Yui6
Communist11
People's Life2
Socialist3
New Renaissance3
Independents4
JRP9 Your Party
12
House of Councillors – The Parties
Number of seats needed for majority = 122
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LDP114
New Komeito20
DPJ58
Yui6
Communist11
People's Life2
Socialist3
New Renaissance3
Independents4
JRP9 Your Party
12
House of Councillors – The Ruling Coalition
Number of seats needed for majority = 122
The RulingLDP-NK
“Hawks and Doves”Coalition
134 seats
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LDP114
New Komeito20
DPJ58
Yui6
Communist11
People's Life2
Socialist3
New Renaissance3
Independents4
JRP9 Your Party
12
House of Councillors – The New Ruling Coalition?
Number of seats needed for majority = 122
The New RulingLDP-JRP-Your Party
“Hawks, Hawks, Hawks”Coalition?
135 seats
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LDP293
New Komeito31
DPJ56
Yui7
Communist8
People's Life7
Socialist2
Independents14
JRP53
Your Party9
House of Representatives – The Ruling Coalition
Current RulingLDP-NK
“Hawks and Doves”Coalition
324 seats
Number of seats needed for supermajority = 320
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LDP293
New Komeito31
DPJ56
Yui7
Communist8
People's Life7
Socialist2
Independents14
JRP53
Your Party9
House of Representatives – The New Ruling Coalition?
Future RulingLDP-JRP-Your Party
“Hawks, Hawks, Hawks”Coalition?
357 seats
Number of seats needed for supermajority = 320
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What Have We Learned?
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RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
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Michael Thomas Cucek
Thanks.
Special thanks to Robert Dujarric and the Institute of Contemporary Asia Studies, Temple University Japan.