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...Meanwhile, in his first four months in office, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has seemed out of touch with the national mood. While Japanese say they're most worried about stagnant wages, a fragile pension system and growing social disparities, Abe has chosen to prioritize plans to revise Japan's pacifist constitution. While parents fret about declining academic standards, Abe's response has been to pass a reform bill that will attempt to make children more patriotic, and may bring back physical punishment to schools. "I'm not sure that constitutional revision should be the No. 1 issue," says Sadakazu Tanigaki...
...Opposition political parties were quick to turn the gaffe into a weapon against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, calling for Yanagisawa's resignation. The minister apologized repeatedly but has refused to resign, and so far Abe has stood behind him - calculating that he can't afford to lose a second cabinet minister just four months into his first term. (Genichiro Sata, minister of administrative reforms, resigned in December over a political funding scandal...
...Neither Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) nor the DPJ can claim sterling feminist credentials - women are largely absent from leadership positions in either party - but this battle is less about baby-making machines than a suddenly struggling Prime Minister. Abe's approval rating feel to a new low of 40.3% in a survey taken over the weekend, down from a height of nearly 70% when he took office. More than 50% of respondents in the poll said they wanted to see Yanigisawa resign for his remark - and with elections coming up in July that could decide the control...
...Abe has bigger problems than a gaffe-prone health minister. The rest of his cabinet is suddenly proving willful to the point of disloyalty, perhaps sensing the Prime Minister's weakness. Last month Abe had to rein in his defense minister twice after Fumio Kyuma first called the American invasion of Iraq a mistake, then later told Japanese reporters that Washington should not be so "bossy" over a planned relocation of a U.S. military base on Japan's Okinawa island. Kyuma's remarks were not welcome in Washington, which has grown accustomed to Tokyo's uncritical alliance, nor were Foreign...
...ABE J. RIESMAN ’08 of Oak Park, Ill. and Quincy House Arts Chair...