My profile of Prime Minister Kishida has now been published at @ForeignPolicy.
foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/04/fum…
foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/04/fum…
I really wanted to answer the question of what it even means to be a liberal in the LDP of 2021 and how Kishida has tried to answer that question over the course of his career.
As the Sakurai Yoshiko column I discussed (see thread below) shows, the right wing is skeptical of the party's liberals and will be watching Kishida closely.
https://twitter.com/observingjapan/status/1444868276278939648?s=20
Whether he will be able to endure in office will depend in large part on whether he can placate the right -- which helped secure his election -- without fundamentally betraying his public image as a moderate who wants to restore trust with the public.
Anyway, I'm really happy with how this piece turned out. Many thanks to @jenn_ruth for the editing.
You can read the whole thing here: foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/04/fum…
You can read the whole thing here: foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/04/fum…
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