{"id":133043,"date":"2024-08-14T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/reactions-to-japans-pm-kishida-stepping-down\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:10:16","slug":"reactions-to-japans-pm-kishida-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/reactions-to-japans-pm-kishida-stepping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to Japan\u2019s PM Kishida stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133043\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will step down in September, ending a three-year term marred by political scandals and paving the way for a new premier to address the impact of rising prices. Kishida&#8217;s decision to quit triggers a contest to replace him as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and by extension as the leader of the world&#8217;s fourth-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was expecting Kishida not to be able to run for quite some time. And that&#8217;s to do with basically the statistics. He&#8217;s already passed average tenure of an LDP prime minister by serving three years. And he&#8217;s not anywhere near a position to be able to say, \u2018I&#8217;m special, I need more time.\u2019 So he was running against the odds to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And at the end of the day, an LDP incumbent prime minister cannot run in the (party) presidential race unless he&#8217;s assured of a victory. It&#8217;s like the grand champion yokozunas of sumo. You don&#8217;t just win, but you need to win with grace. And so if you can&#8217;t do that, you&#8217;re supposed to retire. It&#8217;s considered to be unseemly for the president to run and to get defeated as an incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s open field for the next president. Kishida&#8217;s endorsement will matter as well. Will he back someone from his own faction, like Hayashi or Kamikawa, or ride the wave with another candidate, such as Ishiba, Kono, Koizumi. The new leader needs to be a fresh face, whether that means young or not associated with Kishida, and reform-minded, showing voters that the party will change. &#8220;The new leader will have a tough job navigating this tough political environment and heading into a general election knowing the poll numbers are not looking good. An election is likely to be right after the new PM is sworn in, as new PMs tend to have a slight boost in poll numbers. It\u2019s better to call before negatives come up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics faces another strike this week. &#8220;Support for the prime minister has been sluggish of late and the voices calling for his stepping down have been loud. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party is tantamount to prime minister. Anyone in the position should be able to bring the party together and manage the government. Someone with experience is better than those who are just popular in voter polls. &#8220;If Kishida picked (Foreign Minister Yoko) Kamikawa, and others in the LDP joined him, she could be the one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/reactions-japans-pm-kishida-stepping-down-2024-08-14\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/reactions-to-japans-pm-kishida-stepping-down\/\">Reactions to Japan&#8217;s PM Kishida stepping down<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15698,3237,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-japanese-prime-minister","tag-step-down","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}