Japan’s New Prime Minister Has an Advantage in Winning Over Trump

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/world/asia/japan-trump-takaichi.html

Shinzō Abe & Eriko Imai in 2016
Two political minds I respect...

#Japan #AbeShinzō #安倍晋三 #ImaiEriko #今井絵理子

Shinzō Abe & Eriko Imai in 2016
Two political minds I respect...

#Japan #AbeShinzō #安倍晋三 #ImaiEriko #今井絵理子

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> The issue this time is the plan by Prime Minister #ShinzoAbe to alter a key provision of Japan’s peace constitution to allow Japan’s “Self Defense Forces” to take part in overseas military operations for the first time since World War II... who is this prime minister who has won the trust of the #ObamaAdministration while earning the enmity of the growing majority of its own citizens?
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/could-japan-become-americas-new-proxy-army/
#TimShorrock on #AbeShinzo and #JapanAsProxyArmy #Obama #PresidentObama
Could Japan Become America’s New Proxy Army?

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to alter a key provision of Japan’s constitution to lift the country’s 70-year ban on foreign deployments.

The Nation
> ... the narrative around Abe’s legacy put forth in the media following the assassination overshadows just how unpopular Abe was with the public in his final years. Despite becoming the longest-serving prime minister in Japan’s history, his administration was mired in multiple corruption scandals and alleged cover-ups, which led his approval ratings to drop to an all-time low.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/shinzo-abe-assassination/
#TimShorrock on #AbeShinzo #ShinzoAbe, an chance to tell #MassMedia that
#DeathIsNotPerfume
The Misremembering of Shinzo Abe

In the wake of the former prime minister’s assassination, his antidemocratic legacy has been whitewashed—and his death has renewed calls for revisions to Japan’s pacifist Constitution.

The Nation
saw the final version of Revolution +1 this morning, themes and visual approach are the same, but it's better than the previous one, with a perfect soundtrack by Ōtomo Yoshihide, and a beautiful ending (inspired, my guess, like other Adachi's films, by Auguste Blanqui's writings).
The end credits were in Japanese and English (subtitles by Julian Ross), so maybe will see it at some international film festivals...Berlin perhaps?
#japanesecinema #movies #films #AbeShinzo #Abeshooting
seated for Revolution + 1, let's see how it compares to the previous version...
#japanesecinema #adachimasao #films #movies #AbeShinzo #Abeshooting
the finalised and longer version of Adachi Masao's Revolution +1, about the life of Yamagami Tetsuya, the man who killed Abe Shinzo, is debuting today in same Japanese mini-theaters
#movies #Japanesecinema #Japan #films #AbeShinzo