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13 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The JCP agrees to withdraw its candidates from three districts in Hokkaido -- Hokkaido-3, Hokkaido-4, and Hokkaido-9 -- all three of which look winnable on paper for the CDP. www3.nhk.or.jp/sapporo-news/2…
The JCP has agreed to withdraw 22 candidates in total, and as of now will field only 106 candidates in SMDs, the lowest since electoral reform was introduced. mainichi.jp/articles/20211…
Negotiations are continuing for the remaining 50 or so districts where the two parties are still fielding competing candidates. At this point, every additional seat matters.
Also, the CDP and its Iwate prefectural chapter resolved a dispute over nominee for Iwate-1 that risked dividing opposition vote in a seat the LDP has never won.

Prefectural chapter will back incumbent Shina Takeshi, with whom it has locked in a court battle over party funds.

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14 Oct
Let's talk a look at the @CDP2017 manifesto.

🧵thread🧵
First page opens with a big slogan:

支え合う日本へ

Towards a Japan [in which people?] support one another.
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13 Oct
The LDP has released its manifesto for the 31 October general election.

🧵My thoughts here.🧵

…in.jp-east-2.storage.api.nifcloud.com/pdf/pamphlet/2…
Initial thought. These blotches of color are a different look than the blocks of red/right angles that characterized LDP manifestos during the Abe years. (Left: 2021; Right: 2017)
I guess a more dovish PM gets the more artistic aesthetic or something.
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9 Oct
Here are some of the key takeaways from Kishida's policy speech Friday:

kantei.go.jp/jp/100_kishida… (jp)
(Not sure the provisional English translation is available yet)
1) His New Japanese capitalism is a still a work in progress and I still don't see much difference from Abenomics. He offers 8 (!) pillars divided between a "growth strategy" and "redistribution strategy."
Growth strategy: (1) "realizing science and technology nation," revamping education & boosting investment in advanced technologies; (2) regional revitalization resting on digitalization; (3) economic security; (4) a economic security for 100-year lifespans (working styles, etc.).
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8 Oct
In the acknowledgements of THE ICONOCLAST, I made a point of thanking several high school teachers who made a deep impression upon me.

Today I learned that Chris Schwarz, the first name listed, passed away after a battle with cancer.
He was my AP European History teacher, but I first got to know him when he was my freshman baseball coach. I was the nerd who read on the bus to and from games; I think he felt protective of me. Over the next several years, we struck up a rapport.
By the time I was actually became his student as a senior, it was like we were old friends.
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8 Oct
This Diamond article (jp) on Abe as a new "shadow shogun" merits close reading. diamond.jp/articles/-/283…
The first two pages (of five) mostly summarize how Abe made Kishida's victory possible, but on page three, @KamikuboMasato, a political scientist at Ritsumeikan, delves into the sources of Abe's power and what's different from, say, Tanaka Kakuei as shadow shogun.
@KamikuboMasato He argues that whereas Tanaka's power rested on factional strength -- rooted in the multi-member districts -- factions don't provide the same source of power.
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4 Oct
My profile of Prime Minister Kishida has now been published at @ForeignPolicy.

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.

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