By Nicholas Szechenyi Editor’s Note: The CSIS Asia Team is writing a series of analyses that forecasts key issues and challenges in the Asia-Pacific. Here Nick Szechenyi concisely assesses prospects for Japan’s political stability, economic strategy and foreign policy in…
By Harsh V. Pant With the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) winning a landslide in Japanese parliamentary elections and Shinzo Abe assuming the office of prime minister in Japan, India-Japan relations have entered a new phase. For Japan, embroiled in its…
By Will Colson & Kate Rustici Japan’s new prime minister Shinzo Abe traveled to Southeast Asia from January 16-18 for his first overseas trip with stops in Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia. Abe initially hoped to make the United States his…
By Yuko Nakano A landslide victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the House of Representatives (Lower House) election in Japan was not a mandate for the LDP but more of a rejection of the Democratic Party of Japan…
Who is he? Mr. Shinzo Abe is the President of Japan’s main opposition party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Abe recently regained the position of LDP president by winning a party leadership contest on September 26, 2012. Abe was previously…
