Yoshihiko Noda |
Surprise at the Japanese parliament. Yesterday the substitute of Naoto Kan as PM was elected, the sixth in 5years...this is what we mean by political stability!! There was 5 candidates from the DPJ party with two clear favorites by the media, Maehara san (foreign, young man representing the renovation) and Kaiera san (economy, supported by a strong group in the party with corruption affairs). However, at the end the elected was Noda san (finances), and this from what I read in the news seemed to be a surprise. So, I've doing a bit of working field asking my colleagues their opinion on this...a new PM is not something we see everyday!! Could you believe that 100% of the answers were not following this subject at all and told me they have little or no interest on it! A new cultural difference with myself, true that my participants were quite young but my general feeling here in Japan is that there is not much interest for politics in the society...anyway Mr. Noda has a huge challenge ahead, a country immerse in economic crisis, nuclear and energetic crisis and above all with the rebuilding of the devastated area by the tsunami. To start with, he said he is going to be courageous and take the right decisions and already said is going to rise tax. A good start.
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