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Japan’s public wants change. Can the ruling party deliver?
Backing for the country’s politicians has been eroded by scandals, and citizens want to see a dramatic shift.
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After three years of near-constant scandals under outgoing Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, lawmakers are getting desperate.
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Gearoid Reidy
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The race for Japan’s next leader might lack the dire rhetoric seen in the US election – warnings that choosing the wrong candidate will result in the country ending democracy or ushering in communism.
But it’s a mistake to dismiss the contest for leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who will by default become Japan’s next prime minister, as unimportant.
