Showing posts with label lower house election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lower house election. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

What Asahi Readers Tell Us Random-Digit-Dialing Poll Has to Say about Aso et al (and What to Make of It All)

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Today’s Asahi (online) has the results of its Second Consecutive Public Opinion Poll (telephone) taken on October 11-12. Here are some numb...
Monday, October 13, 2008

What Yomiuri Readers Tell Us Random-Digit-Dialing Poll Has to Say about Aso et al

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Today’s Yomiuri has the results of its monthly RDD poll taken between October 10-12. Here are some numbers: Aso Cabinet: support 45.6% (49....
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

The Supplementary Budget: Remind Me Not to PUI, and Odds and Ends

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I write a Most Likely Budget Scenario where the DPJ rejects the supplementary budget in the Upper House, so of course the next morning, the...
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Most Likely Budget Scenario

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The Lower House passes the supplementary budget this week, the Upper House rejects it next week, the two Houses meet and do not come to an a...
Sunday, October 05, 2008

Shoichi Nakagawa Most Plausible Heir to LDP Conservative Wing

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I saw Shoichi Nakagawa—yes, that dyspeptic nemesis of Western liberals—this morning on TV, on the Sunday Project wide show featuring septua...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Update on the Aso-on-Ozawa, DPJ-on-LDP Battle

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The Prime Minister’s Q&A continued in the Upper House, though without Ichiro Ozawa and his faithful deputy Yukio Hatoyama, it just wasn’...

Briefly, regarding Plenary Q&A on Prime Minister Aso’s Inaugural Speech

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After the Prime Minister’s policy speech at the beginning of a Diet session, the two Houses each hold plenary Q&A sessions where party l...

Why Does Mr. Ozawa’s Electoral District Have to Be an Issue? Now?

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In yet another manifestation of the enigmatic Ichiro Ozawa’s personal issues, possibly (thought increasingly less likely) as little as a mon...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

How Far Can Prime Minister Aso Push Back the Lower House Election? Depends.

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According to news reports as well as Prime Minister Aso’s inaugural September 29 policy speech to the Diet , the top three items on his pol...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Prime Minister Aso’s Inaugural Speech Takes It to the Opposition

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In a major strategic shift from the consensus-seeking Fukuda administration, Prime Minister decided to go on the attack in his inaugural pol...

Nakayama Update

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The media were full of reports about LDP and New Komeito members, including cabinet members Seiko Noda, Takeo Kawamura, Shigeru Ishiba, Take...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Memo on DPJ’s New Election Manifest; Also, More Scrambling by LDP-New Komeito

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I’d mentioned briefly that the DPJ was exploring the need for sequencing its multitrillion-yen election-manifest upgrade package. The DPJ h...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Quo Vadis? The Communist Vote in the Unrepresented Districts

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Ross has reminded me that the Japan Communist Party’s decision not to field candidates in half, likely more, of the 300 single-seat seat Low...
Friday, September 19, 2008

DPJ-PNP Merger Back to Square One

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The merger talks between the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ; House of Councilors (upper house), House of Representatives (lower house) and t...

Gaffe Minister Falls under Early-Election Juggernaut; Takes Deputy as “Travelling Companion on Road to Netherworld”

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This morning, Seiichi Oota, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, heavily challenged where his political hearing is concerned*, t...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Why Does the DPJ Continue Picking on the New Komeito?

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I never understood why the DPJ would want an early Lower House election. After all, the Prime Minister would only be calling a snap election...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Interviewed for Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio

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Jonathan Gadir interviewed me today for ABC Radio. I hope that I managed to make the following points: 1) The differences within the LDP and...
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