Takashi Arimoto's Archives
【#1124】Kishida Should Complete Dissolution of LDP Factions
March 4, 2024 The governance of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been dysfunctional. In order to make a breakthrough in a dispute between ruling and opposition parties over who to at...
【#1115】Abe Faction Disbandment Reflects Heavenly Voice
February 5, 2024 The largest faction within Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party was destined to be disbanded. This is because the Abe faction, officially known as the Seiwa Policy Study Group,...
January 22, 2024 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who doubles as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has announced to dissolve a major LDP faction that he had led. In response, the larges...
January 15, 2024 It is delightful that Lai Chingte of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, who is pro-American and pro-Japanese and distances himself from China, won the presidential election th...
November 20, 2023 At their first meeting in a year, the top Japanese and Chinese leaders, though reaffirming the comprehensive promotion of a “mutually beneficial relationship based on common stra...
【#1086】Does Kishida Have a Passion?
October 30, 2023 Is this the beginning of the end of the Kishida administration? Hiroshige Seko, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Councillors, has openly qu...
【#1079】Kishida May Be Disqualified as National Leader
October 16, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who fails to call terrorism “terrorism” may be disqualified as a national leader. There was a X (formerly Twitter) post by Kishida that led me to thin...
October 10, 2023 “I have squarely faced challenges one by one, made decisions, and taken actions in the past two years,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on October 3, a day before the ...
【#1073】Get Angry with Dysfunctional U.N. Security Council
September 25, 2023 Japan is the third largest contributor to the United Nations after the United States and China. Russia is not even among the Top 10 contributors. Nevertheless, the U.N. is compl...
September 19, 2023 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s newly reshuffled cabinet has a lineup that lacks freshness due to the selection of many hopefuls on a “waiting list” for cabinet ministers recomme...