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Shigeru Ishiba (Japan’s PM) steps down.

  • September 7, 2025

NHK just sent a notification that Ishiba decided to step down.

Crazy.

by stupid_mame

14 comments

  1. Not really crazy. It was just a matter of time. He’s basically become another scapegoat

  4. Not a fan but ishiba is the only moderate who had a chance at the top job in the party. Now we are going to get another right wing nutter. 😭

  5. Damn, the immigration news really sealed the deal huh. I dont like Ishiba, but someone inside def really wanted him down fosho.

  6. Not crazy at all. As other posters said it was a matter of time. He was being criticized from all sides and early polls of LDP members indicated that the recall vote would pass tomorrow.

    This can be a great day for Japanese households if the new PM is more household oriented rather than the recent LDP tendency to favor the rich, large corporations and the government itself. Here is hoping!

  8. so apparently Koizumi and Suga were convincing. surely there’s strategy behind it since Suga/Koizumi are decidedly not the LDP’s far right

  9. Being the guy who could not piece together a single policy other than to raid your pensions and give you 20,000 yen for the trouble, I’m not surprised.

  11. Who would have thought that his recent policies of mass-importing Africans, Indians and Bangladeshis wouldn’t prove to be vote-winners?

  12. Ishiba did not break anything nor get anything significant done. Now we are going to get another left wing woke nutjob. 😭

  14. The whole circus would be laughable if it wasn’t symptomatic of how (and by who) the country is run: a bunch of inept and morally bankrupt old geezers in cahoots with cults of all sizes, origins and toxicity, pretty much organized in mob-like fashion and swimming in legal, not-so-legal and illegal money while everybody else struggles. Frankly the Gandpa Simpson “Old men yelling at clouds”-meme comes to mind with groups and groups of old men shouting at the clouds and at each other…

    Let’s also not forget the level of “inbreeding” due to a staggering level of “political dynasties” clogging parliament with their offspring.

    https://thediplomat.com./2023/02/japans-politics-is-flooded-with-nepo-babies/

    Excerpt:

    “*According to a paper written by Doshisha University Professor Iida Takeshi and other scholars, hereditary lawmakers made up about 3 percent of all Diet members in 1960. But now,* ***one in three*** *of the 713 lawmakers in the Japanese Diet come from political dynasties.*

    *That makes Japan a rare case. In most countries, the ratio of hereditary lawmakers is less than 10 percent. For example, the ratio of hereditary representatives in both houses of U.S. Congress is said to be about 5 percent.*”

    Ishiba was not the worse of the bunch, but his schtick was to sell a within-the-party “opposition voice” to voters before the elections, and once he got the job, like all PMs before him, started flip-flopping and threw the public under the bus to play party politics to be able to stay afloat.

    An addition to his woes were:

    – the hubris, ineptitude and arrogance of the Abe-years

    – the failure of Abenomics

    – the pile-up of scandals under Abe which heavily undermined the public’s trust in public institutions

    – the insane spending on short type matsuri-type events and their shaky results (Tokyo Olympics and later scandals and the still ongoing Osaka Expo which results may end up pretty lukewarm)

    – the slush-fund and the Moonie-scandals in the wake of Abe’s murder

    – the military build-up pretty much unilaterally decided by Abe which funds still need to be sourced…

    – the onslaught of raises in taxes and social costs under Kishida which are hitting household incomes

    – the cost-of-living crisis hitting households expenses and savings

    – the BOJ raising interests which against raises loan expenses for households

    All of the above, while the LDP is fighting tooth and nails to keep their juicy donation and fund-raising party systems up and running. The LDP has succeeded in making themselves so hated and ineligible that far-right fringe bonkers populist parties have started to trend amongst the public. This is no going to end up well…

    Now, if this wasn’t laughable in itself, the fact that it is what is left from the far-right nutter Abe faction who are responsible for most of the above mess who are after Ishiba’s head, while they, themselves are getting the boot from voters over the last 3 elections makes the whole thing somehow look like a very bad joke…

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