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TOKYO - Veteran lawmaker Shigeru Ishiba was set on Friday (Sept 27) to become Japan's next prime minister after winning a closely fought contest in his fifth and final attempt to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Japan's government will be in a weaker position to deal with challenges facing the country, after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party failed to secure a majority in the lower house election on Oct. 27.
As political miscalculations go, it’s hard to top Shigeru Ishiba’s decision to hold a snap election Sunday, just 30 days after his own shock rise to Japan’s premiership.
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’ s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday’s elections amid public rage over the party’s financial scandals and discontent over a stagnant economy. The results could weaken Ishiba’s grip on power, possibly leading Japan into political uncertainty, though a change of government was not expected.
A man was arrested in Tokyo on Saturday and accused of throwing several incendiary devices at the headquarters of the governing Liberal Democratic Party and slamming his car into a security fence outside the nearby office of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, a public broadcaster reported.
“Countries have no friends – just interests,” or so goes the paraphrased version of Lord Palmerston’s statement. That was so cynical – so 19th Century British Empire. But 170 years later, try buying another nation’s steel company and you might think Lord Palmerston was right.
