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November 3, 2021

Japan
PM Kishida’s Election

October 31 offered the Japanese people the opportunity to weigh in on their new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and his party, the Liberal Democrats. 

Japan's Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Fumio Kishida poses with key party members as he puts rosettes on a board with names of successful general election candidates, at the party headquarters, in Tokyo, Japan, October 31, 2021.

June 1, 2010

China
Truly New Thinking on North Korea

Lee Jae-Won/Courtesy Reuters Are three of the world’s wealthiest nations truly without recourse? In the wake of North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean warship and the death of forty-six South Korea…

(L-R) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pose before their summit in Seogwipo on Jeju island, south of Seoul May 29, 2010. Leaders of the three nations are meeting at the third trilateral summit on the resort island of Jeju from May 29-30 in which escalating tension on the Korean peninsula will certainly be high on the agenda.   REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)

June 2, 2010

Japan
Prime Minister Hatoyama’s Surprise

Photo courtesy of REUTERS/POOL Yesterday’s resignation of Yukio Hatoyama as Japan’s prime minister was swift and complete. Prime Minister Hatoyama cited two reasons for his decision to step down. Th…

Prime Minister Hatoyama’s Surprise

June 2, 2010

Japan
Media Conference Call: Implications of Japan's Prime Minister's Resignation

Listen to CFR Senior Fellow Sheila Smith discuss the implications of implications of the surprise collapse of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government.

Podcast

October 20, 2017

Japan
Japan's Election Sunday

Japanese will once more go to the polls this Sunday to give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a thumbs up or a thumbs down on his performance as prime minister. This snap election for the lower house of Japa…

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano speaks at a campaign rally in Tokyo, Japan on October 19.