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Related: About this forumJapan's Shinzo Abe tipped to resign in June as cronyism scandals take toll
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/japan-shinzo-abe-tipped-to-resign-june-cronyism-scandalJapan's Shinzo Abe tipped to resign in June as cronyism scandals take toll
Prime ministers popularity is at an all-time low and risks damaging his partys standing in coming elections
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Mon 16 Apr 2018 06.43 BST
Japans prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is likely to resign in June after two cronyism scandals sent his approval ratings to an all-time low and risk damaging his partys fortunes in elections next year, according to one of Japans most popular postwar leaders. Junichiro Koizumi, a flamboyant reformer who was prime minister from 2001-06, told a weekly magazine published on Monday that Abe has found himself in a dangerous situation over the scandals, adding: Wont he resign around the time the current parliamentary session ends [on 20 June]?
Speaking to Aera magazine, Koizumi said Abe could harm his Liberal Democratic partys chances in next summers upper house elections if he manages to cling on to the LDP presidency in a leadership election due in September.
Abe has been badly bruised by allegations of cronyism centering on the heavily discounted sale of public land to the operator of an ultra-nationalist kindergarten in Osaka with links to his wife, Akie Abe. He has consistently denied any wrongdoing, and said he would resign if he or his wife were shown to have been intervened in the sale of the land. The finance ministry recently admitted to tampering with documents to remove references to Abe and his wife in papers relating to the decision to provide an 85% discount on the appraised value of the land.
He is also alleged to have used his influence to help a friend secure permission to open a veterinary school claims he has rejected. Last week, however, an official document emerged describing the veterinary school as an issue that involves the prime minister.
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Japan's Shinzo Abe tipped to resign in June as cronyism scandals take toll (Original Post)
nitpicker
Apr 2018
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Wasn't Abe the one who was looking to put aside Japan's policy of anti-agression and
no_hypocrisy
Apr 2018
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)1. Hes meeting with trump at Mar-A-Lago this week....
this is Abe's second meeting with trump there. No wonder they get along.
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)2. Wasn't Abe the one who was looking to put aside Japan's policy of anti-agression and
pacifism and in favor of developing nuclear weapons?