{"id":40848,"date":"2025-09-23T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/?p=40848"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:07:14","slug":"japans-prime-minister-ishiba-a-year-in-the-life-and-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/japans-prime-minister-ishiba-a-year-in-the-life-and-what-comes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Ishiba: A Year in the Life. 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Last September, his dream finally came true when, on his fifth attempt, he won the leadership race of Japan\u2019s ruling <strong>Liberal Democratic Party<\/strong> (LDP). At that time, the LDP held a majority in both chambers of the National Diet, so he was formally elected <strong>prime minister<\/strong> the following October. Yet Ishiba\u2019s dream soon turned into a nightmare. In the same month, the LDP <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/backstories\/3627\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>lost its majority<\/strong><\/a><strong> in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Diet<\/strong>. In November, Ishiba was re-elected prime minister, but in charge of a minority government formed with the LDP\u2019s coalition partner, <strong>Komeito<\/strong>, which meant having to find compromises with opposition parties \u2014 no easy task. The situation became even more complicated in July, when the LDP also <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/old-guard-shaken-ldps-decline-in-japans-upper-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>lost its majority<\/strong><\/a><strong> in the House of Councillors, the Diet\u2019s upper house<\/strong>, which heightened pressure within the LDP on Ishiba to step down. Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20250828_08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a> showed a growing share of the public believed he did not need to resign, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20250907_11\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> his <strong>resignation<\/strong> on September 7. The question now is who will replace Ishiba, and whether that person can solve both the LDP\u2019s and Japan\u2019s problems.<\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>What is the broader picture?<\/h2><p>When Ishiba became the LDP\u2019s president and Japan\u2019s prime minister, his party was struggling to recover from a <strong>political funding <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/falling-stars-in-the-land-of-the-rising-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>scandal<\/strong><\/a> and the extremely low approval ratings of his predecessor, <strong>Fumio Kishida<\/strong>. Ishiba, a former LDP Secretary-General, seemed like the right choice. He was leading public opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/newsonjapan.com\/article\/143553.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a> and did not lack <strong>political experience<\/strong>, having served as Defense Minister as well as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries. He <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/will-japan-feel-the-wind-of-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledged<\/a> to <strong>restore the LDP\u2019s credibility <\/strong>and <strong>\u201ccreate a new Japan,\u201d<\/strong> while addressing inflation, low wages, and demographic decline.<\/p><p>One year is a relatively short time to solve such issues, especially when there is a lower house election during your first month and an upper house election during the tenth. In addition, Ishiba\u2019s Cabinet had to handle difficult <strong>tariff negotiations<\/strong> with the United States, which Ishiba described as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20250907_11\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national crisis<\/a>.\u201d Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/09\/implementing-the-united-states-japan-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trade deal<\/a> was <strong>finalized<\/strong> early this September, it was too late and not enough to make up for the LDP\u2019s election losses. One day before the party was expected to decide whether to hold a special leadership contest, Ishiba announced his <strong>resignation<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20250907_11\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> that the trade deal gave him a sense of closure and that he wanted to <strong>avoid divisions within the party<\/strong>.<\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>Why does it matter?<\/h2><p>Ishiba was elected LDP president on September 27 last year, and 12 months later, on <strong>October 4<\/strong>, his party will once again be looking for a new savior. The list of possible candidates includes two former economic security ministers <strong>Takayuki Kobayashi<\/strong> and <strong>Sanae Takaichi<\/strong>, former LDP secretary-general <strong>Toshimitsu Motegi<\/strong>, Agriculture Minister <strong>Shinjiro Koizumi<\/strong>, and Chief Cabinet Secretary <strong>Yoshimasa Hayashi<\/strong>. The question is whether any of them will be able to reverse the LDP\u2019s decline. For decades, the LDP\u2019s position <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/with-liberal-democrats-happily-ever-after\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seemed<\/a> almost unshakable, but times are changing, and as Japan faces numerous challenges, voters (especially younger generations) are beginning to <strong>look for alternatives<\/strong>, as the most recent upper house election <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/old-guard-shaken-ldps-decline-in-japans-upper-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed<\/a>.<\/p><p>However, who becomes Japan\u2019s next leader should matter not only to Japanese audiences but also to international ones, because Japan is not only a <strong>vital partner to the United States<\/strong> in the Indo-Pacific, but the globally deteriorating security environment is also drawing it <strong>closer to Europe<\/strong>. This is\u00a0 illustrated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/japan-to-deploy-f-15s-to-uk-in-historic-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deployment<\/a> of its F-15J fighters to Europe and the United Kingdom <strong>for the first time<\/strong>, Japan\u2019s\u00a0 participation in the <strong>Global Combat Air Programme<\/strong> (a trilateral effort with the United Kingdom and Italy to build a sixth-generation fighter aircraft), or its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mod.go.jp\/j\/policy\/agenda\/guideline\/strategy\/pdf\/strategy_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared intention<\/a> to <strong>reinforce collaboration with Central European countries<\/strong>, such as the Czech Republic and Poland.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Unsplash.com Foto: Unsplash.com What is happening? 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