Fiscal policy in the eyes of the Japanese public

On June 20, 2013July 12, 2019 By Tobias S. HarrisIn Observing Japan BlogLeave a comment

It increasingly seems that if Abe Shinzō is going to remain in office, he will need to retain the approval of the Japanese public, and that if he is going to retain the approval of the Japanese public, the Japanese public will need to reap some of the benefits from the purported revival of economic …

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Mr. Kan’s Third Way

On June 17, 2010 By Tobias S. HarrisIn Observing Japan Blog8 Comments

The Third Way has, belatedly, arrived in Japan.The style of politics popular in advanced industrial democracies during the 1990s among center-left leaders keen to reconcile their left-wing parties to the rise of neo-liberalism and the onset of austerity after the 1970s had heretofore failed to surface in Tokyo. But with the ascendancy of Kan Naoto, …

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