And again Japan has a new Prime Minister
Last year I examined the length that Japanese Prime Ministers have remained in office. On Sunday December 17th, Japan replaced Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and the lower house of the government with members of the Liberal Democratic Party which is not really Liberal but ultra nationalistic and conservative. What does this mean? At the end of my last post on Japanese prime Ministers, I wished Noda good luck at lasting longer than one year. Well he did make it past 1 year in the number sense. The Noda government lasted 475 days. So now Japan will have a new Prime Minister...but wait we have had this guy before. Welcome back Shinzo Abe. Abe has, before even moving back into the Prime Minister's residence, pissed off China and Korea by claiming he wants to change the constitution so that Japan can have a standing army instead of a purely defensive one. Members of his party want to deny the atrocities Japan committed in WWII. But Japan is facing an economic crisis. The ...