Fukuda announces resignation
09/01/2008 @ 10:23 pm
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has announced his resignation in a brief news conference this evening.
He claimed his government had implemented ground-breaking reforms, but the refusal of the Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) to negotiate meant legislative stalemate. He said that “new policies should be pursued under new leadership”.
Looks like Taro Aso’s time has finally come.
If the LDP really want us to believe that this is entirely down to the obstruction of the opposition, personally, I fail to see what difference a change of PM is going to make. Is new leadership really going to make any difference to the DPJ’s tactics? Give the public a general election instead. Win that and you have a clear (and stronger) mandate.
Various LDP rentaquotes on the TV are saying that dissolving the lower house would cause that much-dreaded ‘confusion’. None of them seemed that concerned about the power vacuum doing exactly that though.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:48 pmI was just thinking this morning, that we need another PM resignation to get the exchange rates back up. Reading this now freaks me out a bit.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:11 pmTaro Aso becoming PM probably will be a boon to Japan bloggers.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:12 pmBring on the Otaku PM!
September 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pmIs there any more background on this? As an outsider I don’t hear much(aka anything) about Japanese politics in the mainstream or even independent media. Also, anywhere I can read up on some of political issues in Japan? Again, as a US citizen politics doesn’t seem nearly as incendiary in Japan, although that could just be due to US elections coming up.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 amyou have to stop and ask yourself..”Did he really want the job in the first place?” - and the reply comes back “Probably not!”.
What sane person would?..he most likely reluctantly stepped in to warm the seat after Abe wimped out.
I can’t see what the fuss is about - Japanese Prime Minister’s are for main powerless figureheads.
It’s the backroom party bosses and corporate paymasters who wield the real power in Japan. (always out of the glazed public eye).
rem.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 am@riki: Could you please think about me winning ￥100000000 in the lottery next time
Heard about this before I went to bed last night. Really surprised. The missus told me, he couldn’t handle the stress of the work needed to be done in Japan. As some of you may know the economy is in a downward spiral.
Hope a new PM will be able to bring it all back up. I agree with Sputnik btw, any site where foreigners can read all about the Japanese politics??
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 amHey Papi not a problem.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 am