Abe Shinzo in his own wordsThe Economist interviews the former Japanese prime minister Editor’s note (July 8th 2022): In May Abe Shinzo, who has been assassinated while making a campaign speech in the western city of Nara, gave an interview to The Economist, republished below. ABE SHINZO served longer as prime minister than anyone in Japan’s history, holding the office from 2012-2020. He stepped d
As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to doThere was just one fatal shooting in the whole of 2015 THE stake-out lasted a week, but it paid off in the end. The tireless police of Kagoshima, a sleepy city in the far south of the country, watched the unlocked car day and night. It was parked outside a supermarket, and contained a case of malt beer. Finally, a passing middle-aged man decid
The march of Europe’s little TrumpsXenophobic parties have long been ostracised by mainstream politicians. That may no longer be possible KENT EKEROTH, a 34-year-old member of parliament for the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) party, has a pithy response to the idea that immigration can be good for a country: “Bullshit.” Mr Ekeroth’s party would like to block any more refugees from coming to Swede
WITH a weak opposition, an election in the bag and buoyant approval ratings, the government of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, would hardly seem to have much to fight against. Yet it is waging an increasingly heavy-handed campaign to intimidate the media. Even pro-government journalists are crying foul.
Don’t treat trade as a weaponAn Asian-Pacific trade deal looks within reach, but politicians should stop seeing it as a way to contain China GOOD news out of Washington is rare. Last week congressional leaders agreed on a bipartisan bill which, if passed, would for the first time in years give the president “fast-track” authority when negotiating trade deals. The bill would be a boost for the pros
Red revivalCommunists become Japan’s strongest political opposition in the provinces JAPANESE voters went to the polls last weekend in local elections that set few pulses racing: turnout was the lowest on record and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the dominant partner in Japan’s ruling coalition, cruised to victory predictably, winning over half the nation’s prefectural assembly seats. But ano
In the airDespite the shifts of the past century and a half, Japan is still trapped by its past Japan and the Shackles of the Past. By Taggart Murphy.Oxford University Press; 443 pages; $29.95. Buy from Amazon.co.uk MOST historical analysis of Japan tends to emphasise the country’s ruptures with the past. In the mid-19th century the inward-looking Tokugawa shogunate fell and was replaced with rule
Now or NaverAt home, South Korea’s biggest web portal has thrashed Yahoo and kept Google at bay. Now its owner plans to conquer the world with its messaging service DOWN jackets are typically stuffed with duck, not chicken, feathers. Why? “Ask Naver”. So ran an ad in 2003 for a South Korean web portal of that name featuring an innovative, crowdsourced question-and-answer service. In spite of such
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