Where Japan Goes Next
Jul 23, 2025•1 hr 30 min
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Episode description
Tobias Harris of the Observing Japan substack https://observingjapan.substack.com/ joins to discuss the latest Japanese election, how we got here, and what happens next.
- How Abe's assassination led to the LDP's three years of struggles
- What the latest results in the upper house election tell us about domestic Japanese politics
- What's the deal with big winners like Kōmeitō and the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP)
- How domestic dynamics tie into US-Japan and China-Japan relations
Outtro Music: The Communist Party's 2025 Gender song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59qOPTe62g&ab_channel=%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E5%85%B1%E7%94%A3%E5%85%9A
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