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Political Fragility in Japan and the Resignation of Abe Shinzo: Is Japanese Democracy Going Backwards?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yamaguchi Jiro
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I was travelling in the UK in the first half of September and the news of Abe's resignation reached me in London. The local media too were reporting on this unexpected event in some detail. Newspapers which would normally differ in their comments such as The Financial Times (“Abe posed as a samurai but was a weakling after all”) or The Guardian (“Japan does not have a leader befitting her national wealth”) agreed in criticising the absence of leadership in Japanese politics.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 11 , November 2007 , e13
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[1] Translator's note: The Financial Times article by David Pilling published September 12 contained the phrase: “This is not bushido. This is chicken.”