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Japan: Political Developments and Data in 2021

A Reversal of Electoral Fortunes for the Liberal Democratic Party

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Airo Hino,
Hiroki Ogawa,
Robert A. Fahey and
Ling Liu
Airo Hino
Affiliation:
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroki Ogawa
Affiliation:
Kochi University, Kochi, Japan
Robert A. Fahey
Affiliation:
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Ling Liu
Affiliation:
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract

The year 2021 saw the resignation of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga after just a year in office, following steep declines in his government's approval ratings due to public dissatisfaction with aspects of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. His successor, former Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida, was nonetheless able to limit the ruling party's losses in a general election in late October, preventing the left-wing opposition parties from making any advances. The centre-right Japan Innovation Party/Nippon Ishin no Kai, however, gained 30 seats to become the third-largest party in the Diet, consolidating its political grip on the region surrounding Japan's second-largest city, Osaka.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , December 2022, pp. 264 - 286
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Copyright © 2022 European Consortium for Political Research

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