Japan’s Coming Political Earthquake
Japan is now confronting challenges at home and abroad that are more serious than any it has had to face since the end of World War II. That means that Japan’s political system, now entering its third decade of dysfunction, is unlikely to remain a matter of popular indifference for much longer.
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OSAKA – Japan is now confronting challenges at home and abroad that are as serious as any it has had to face since World War II’s end. Yet the Japanese public is displaying remarkable apathy. The country’s two major political parties, the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) recently chose their leaders, yet ordinary Japanese responded with a collective shrug. But Japan’s political system is unlikely to remain a matter of popular indifference for much longer.