Will Japan's new prime minister stay in office longer than either of his five predecessors?

Sep 6th 2011, 16:48

Of course and beyond question, I give Yoshihiko Noda 100% possibility that he can finish his tenure until July 2013 since the first day when Mr. Noda disclosed his willingness of succeeding Naoto Kan to Finacial Times.

Although Mr. Noda’s political experience is fewer than these five incumbents, Liberal Democratic Party is hard to overthrow him or there is no stronger figure than him. Second, Noda has put forward the idea that LDP or other parties’ assmbly can join in the cabinet working together. This mechanism might have been keeping the political arena peaceful and stable. And after the 311 Eastearn Japan-Quake, rebuilding the economy and letting Japanese regain their confidence is the long-term scheme in addition to recovering the disastrous areas.

On the other side, with his background of finance, at least he carries out his routine and doesn’t suffer any unfortunate accident like 2008’s Japan Airline or political donation’s scandal of Yukio Hatoyama, or social welfare’s argument against LDP of Naoto Kan, and Mr. Noda must hold the power continuously. And the dispute of Futenma, the United State’s Okinawa military base, is going to soothe through the accord between these two countries. Compared with LDP, DPJ believing Fabianism exercises moderate political plan for Japanese. So I think that after he meets America’s President Barack Obama in several weeks, he can attend the summit of East Asia chatting with South Korea’s President Lee Myung-Bak and my boss, Le Kai-Qiang, who is destined to succeed China’s Prime Minister Wen Jia-Bao more than twice.

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