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Japan Digest · 2023/09/23
1. Kishida Reshuffled His Cabinet PM Kishida, on September 13, formed his 2nd Cabinet, and it was formally invested at the Emperor’s Palace on the same day. Among total nineteen cabinet members, eleven were newly appointed, six stayed intact from the 1st Cabinet and two members used to serve previous cabinets. Female Diet members shared five posts, which tie with the past highest number of the 1st Koizumi Cabinet and of the 2nd Abe Cabinet. Following is the breakdown of the cabinet members by...
Japan Digest · 2023/09/23
1. Kishida To Reshuffle His Cabinet Next Week Confronting the continuous declination of his approval ratings, PM Kishida is reportedly considering to reshuffle his cabinet and some top leader positions of his Liberal Democratic Party. In the past few weeks, he had lunch or dinner with some of the key Cabinet members including Minister Kono and Minister Takaichi as well as core LDP members including the party VP Aso, the party Secretary General Motegi and Rep. Ishiba to discuss the Cabinet...
Japan Digest · 2023/09/23
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Continues To Slide NHK conducted a monthly survey from August 11 through 13, which revealed that the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went down by 5 points from July to 33%, while its disapproval rating went up by 4 points to 45%. This approval rating ties to his lowest that was marked in November last year and in January this year. It seems the never-ending media reports about the problems being discovered by local governments and healthcare organizations with...
Japan Digest · 2023/08/27
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Continues To Slide NHK conducted a monthly survey from August 11 through 13, which revealed that the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went down by 5 points from July to 33%, while its disapproval rating went up by 4 points to 45%. This approval rating ties to his lowest that was marked in November last year and in January this year. It seems the never-ending media reports about the problems being discovered by local governments and healthcare organizations with...
Japan Digest · 2023/08/06
1. Japan’s Population Declined By Around 800,000 Ministry of General Affairs and Telecommunications announced this week that Japan’s population as of January 1st of this year was 122,423,038, which is 800,523 smaller than the previous year. This is the 14th year of declination in row since 2009 when its population peaked. Also, it is the very first time ever since 1973 when the prefectural survey started that all the 47 prefectures recorded a declination of individual prefectural...
Japan Digest · 2023/08/06
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Continues To Slide According to NHK’s monthly survey that was conducted on July 7 through 9, Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went down from June by 5 points to 38%. Its disapproval rating went up by 4 points to 41%. Other key findings are as follows: Do you agree or disagree to the government policy to release to the sea the treated water that include radioactive material like tritium coming from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after diluting...
Japan Digest · 2023/07/02
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Dove In A Month Yomiuri’s monthly survey that was conducted on May 23 through 25 revealed that the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went down by 15 points to 41%, while the disapproval rating went up by 11 points to 44%. The previous survey was done during the period of the G7 Hiroshima Summit that PM Kishida chaired. The 15 points declination of approval rating in a month is the largest ever since Kishida took the office in October 2021. A Japanese tendency...
Japan Digest · 2023/06/24
1. PM Kishida Launched Unprecedented Scale Of Countermeasure Against Declining Population Facing the sharply declining number of children in the nation, PM Kishida held a live media announcement this week to inform people of Japan of his cabinet’s “Children’s Future Strategic Policy” explaining some detail of unprecedented scale of financial support to families with children. The planned expansion of the financial support will encompass the following items: Nursery allowance l Expand...
Japan Digest · 2023/06/05
1. Japan And U.S. To Build A Roadmap To Jointly Develop Next Generation Semiconductor Taking the opportunity of the Indo Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)’s minister-level meeting, which was held end of May in Detroit, METI Minister Nishimura and Ms. Raymond, Secretary of Commerce had a bilateral meeting and delivered a joint statement on May 26 that the two nations would build a roadmap to jointly develop next generation semiconductor. The joint statement also mentioned bio technology, AI,...
Japan Digest · 2023/05/23
1. G7 Summit Begins Today The leaders of the G7 nations, EU, India, Australia, Korea, Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, Union of Comoros and Cook Islands gathered in Hiroshima of Japan yesterday for this year’s G7 Summit that Japan hosts . PM Kishida held a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, UK PM Rishi Sunak and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni on May 18. The summit meeting starts today by working lunch to talk about digital economy, trade, Ukraine followed by working dinner to discuss on...