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I guess we could be getting Kishida's picks for the BOJ leadership on Valentine's Day. πŸ’˜
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The BOJ owns all the debt
What should it do?
I feel like @RajaKorman could probably come up with some solid #BOJValentines.
Kishida really should do a Bachelor-style rose ceremony with his short list. 🌹
Roses are red
Kuroda's been unconventional
But is yield curve control
Still quite defensible?

#BOJValentines
Roses are red
Chocolate is sweet
What's to be done
With the BOJ's balance sheet

#BOJValentines
Roses are red
Kishida is spending
Is now the right time
For yield curve control to be ending?

#BOJValentines

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Feb 8
All right, starting a thread on Abe’s memoir here. 🧡
First, at first glance it looks long β€” 440 pages. However, the table of contents says that there are nearly 100 pages of reference materials in the back, making it a little more manageable.
The preface by Hashimoto Goro and Oyama Hiroshi, the Yomiuri Shimbun journalists responsible for the book, makes a few points of interest.
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Jul 10, 2022
Here's Asahi's map as of 10pm JST.
The upper end of the 60-69 range NHK is projecting for the LDP would bring it to the absolute majority line.
Put this on the calendar: cabinet reshuffle coming in September. That'll be the first snapshot of the post-Abe LDP.

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Jul 10, 2022
Polls are closed and so far as expected.
My old boss @asao_keiichiro will be heading back to the Diet as an upper house member from Kanagawa. (γŠγ‚γ§γ¨γ†γ”γ–γ„γΎγ™!)
They're predicting 25-30 single member constituencies for the LDP, but that's pretty much the expected range.
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Jul 9, 2022
I also have an oped for the @wapo on the kind of politician Abe was. It's important not to overlook the fact that Abe wasn't universally beloved -- and that he relished the fight.

"Shinzo Abe was the most polarizing Japanese political figure of his time"

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
In this vein, when I was writing my book, I briefly considered making an extended comparison between Abe and Richard Nixon.
When one thinks about it, the similarities are striking:
- Recognized for being global strategists
- Shrewd political battlers who divided the world into friends and enemies (and inspired intense loyalty from the former and fierce enmity from the latter)
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Jul 9, 2022
Now that we're learning more about the killer and his motives, it is even more stunning that Abe's relations with a marginal religious group -- as @WilliamWGrimes shows here an odd footnote in Japanese politics, not necessarily nefarious -- could have led to his death.
We're starting to get a fuller picture here: digital.asahi.com/sp/articles/AS…
Anyway, you should definitely follow @mclaughlin_levi, who knows a whole lot about the intersection of religion and politics in Japan.
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Jul 8, 2022
I wrote a quick political obituary of Abe for @ForeignPolicy.

foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/08/shi…
Many thanks to @jenn_ruth for the opportunity and the quick turnaround.
While I'm thanking people, I've literally lost count of the number of interviews I've done for TV, radio, and print in the last 18 hours, and I am so grateful to everyone who reached out and everyone who made it all possible.
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