Why is the Japanese Prime Minister who is stable in the dangerous situation

American Bloomberg September 5th article, original title: Japanese Prime Minister who seeks stable is in danger

Several short -lived prime ministers in Japan can prove one thing: in Japan, political destiny can be changed rapidly. The current Prime Minister Kishida Wenxiong is currently feeling the pressure. Just two months ago, in view of the excellent performance of the Senate elections, Tokyo's public opinion was still talking about Kishida's "golden three years". During this period, he could be in power with peace of mind and did not have to face the voters in front of the voting box again. However, after his bold position on Russia and Ukraine's conflict pushed up the support rate of the first year of administration, reality finally hit a hit. The life of "Mr. Stable" in Japan suddenly became dangerous.

Decreased support rate

Kishida Wenxiong's support in major media is declining. In a recent investigation released by Japan News Network, 48.3%of people expressed their disapproval of Kishida Cabinet, which was slightly higher than those who expressed support. At present, Kishida's support rate is the lowest since he took office, and there are more and more problems. The inflation rate has reached the highest level in recent years, and wage growth is still weak. Kishida's plan for the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been increasingly opposed, because national funerals may spend $ 2 million in taxpayers. The concession is too late now, so Kishida promised to explain the reasons for holding national funerals.

However, the primary problem of dragging Kishida has nothing to do with him. The killing incident of Abe triggered the problem of connection between the ruling party's Liberal Democratic Party politicians and the unified religion. The suspect who murdered Abe told the police that the reason why he locked the former leader was because he hated the unified religion. However, the relationship between Abe and unified religion seems to be relatively weak, and Kishida is basically not. The connection between the unified religion and the Liberal Democratic Party reported by the media seems to be mostly just a routine business of politicians -sending congratulations and shaking hands with voters in various activities.

Nevertheless, this incident provides unlimited materials for the "Fighting World" program. "Looking at the world" is the gossip news program in the afternoon, which has a profound impact on Japanese public opinion. Kishida promised to solve this problem by cutting off the connection between the Liberal Democratic Party and the unified religion, but this may conflict with the religious freedom rights guaranteed by the Constitution. This problem may continue to ferment behind the scenes, and it may be periodically intensified as the long -term scandal of Abe's governance. Abe can control political narratives through policies and take these things from the front page of the news, but Kishida lacks such a ability to perform.

Gorgeous rhetoric is more than specific policies

Kishida's "new capitalist" economic strategy is full of internal contradictions, and gorgeous rhetoric is more than specific policies. Abe's national funeral has received so much attention, one of the reasons is that it is difficult to identify the traces of Kishida on other things.

To make matters worse, Kishida also attracted the reputation of "wall grass". The latest reversal occurs in nuclear energy. He unexpectedly supported the construction of a new nuclear reactor. This was a major change in his energy policy after the Fukushima nuclear leakage incident, but he seemed to change his position soon and announced that he would continue to reduce his dependence on nuclear energy.

This is reminiscent of his repetition in increasing capital gains tax in the first few months of taking office and encouraging citizens to invest in the market. Kishida said that he was good at listening and hoping to listen to the opinions of all parties. He seemed sincere, but he hoped to attract everyone. In the end, no one was attracted.

It's time to express loudly

Japanese voters often report to the Prime Minister's bold policy to report on the peach -from the privatization of Koizumi Koi Kojiro to Abe's anti -shielding measures. Even the legislative achievements of Kan Yiwei stepped down were much more achieved than Kishida's achievements in vaccines and Olympic Games.

It is now that Kishida's failure is too early. The number of polls goes down from the high starting point. Unless his support fell to 30%of the "dangerous areas", the challenges within the Liberal Democratic Party would not increase. With Abe's steps down, the largest faction of the Liberal Democratic Party fell into chaos. After the national funeral, the news of unified education may lose attractiveness. But Kishida needs to score, which means to launch a bold policy. Kishida may be a good listener, and now it is when he expresses himself loudly. (Author Gerad Ridi, translated by Chen Xin) ▲

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