Master plan
LAST year Japan lowered the voting age from 20 to 18. But Minami, a high-schooler from Tokyo, does not plan to vote in an election for the upper house of the Diet, or parliament, on July 10th. Like many Japanese, she finds politics dull. The upcoming election will probably not change their views. The government, led by Shinzo Abe, is likely to trounce the floundering opposition. Mr Abe’s poll rati
Abe’s demons
JAPAN’S imperious newspapers rarely issue apologies; two in six months is unheard of. In August, the liberal Asahi Shimbun admitted running stories based on discredited testimony by a former Japanese soldier who said he had corralled Korean women into wartime military brothels. Last week, the Asahi’s conservative archrival, Yomiuri Shimbun, said sorry to its 10m readers for using the term “sex sla
Moment of reckoning
Moment of reckoningShinzo Abe’s expected victory in next week’s snap election will leave him no excuse for further backsliding on structural reform THERE is little doubt that Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, sees himself as a leader with an historic mission. In an interview with The Economist, he recalled the revolutionaries from his home prefecture of Yamaguchi who in the 1860s overthrew the o
The threat of merely screaming
PUBLIC demonstrations in Japan are some of the free world’s most orderly and also some of the most heavily policed. On November 26th, as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) pushed a controversial secrecy bill through the lower house of the Diet, your correspondent walked by a line of protesters sitting calmly outside the building, holding signs against the proposed law. The nearest thing to
Politicians tap Twitter to tweak profiles | The Japan Times
At 6:44 p.m. on July 15, Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Seiji Osaka posed a question on his Twitter profile: “I think bringing the voting age down to 18 years old is OK. What do you think about it?” Within 10 days, 198 users posted their opinions, and one even summarized the debate — 76.8 percent who expressed views supported lowering the voting age and 23.2 percent were against it. Twitter —
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