Japan is not rallying around its prime minister

recorded its first case of covid-19 on January 16th, 784 people have died across the country of 126m, fewer deaths than in one day in New York City during the peak of the outbreak there. On May 14th the government lifted the state of emergency in 39 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, with more likely to be released this week. In terms of deaths relative to population, Japan ranks alongside South Korea, whose government has been widely praised for its management of the pandemic.

Mr Abe has cultivated the image of himself as a strong leader. But faced with covid-19 “he has not acted like the leader he claimed he was,” says Tobias Harris, author of “The Iconoclast”, a biography of Mr Abe to be published later this year. Instead, he has appeared hapless and out of touch, much as he did during his brief first stint as, or “one who cannot read the air”, says Jeff Kingston of Temple University in Tokyo.

The government’s economic stimulus measures have been similarly ham-fisted. Mr Abe backtracked on an initial plan to give struggling households ¥300,000 each, shifting instead to a universal ¥100,000 handout favoured by his Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition partner, Komeito. The result looked “muddled instead of decisive”, says Phillip Lipscy of the University of Toronto.

Perhaps they’re still fearful of the “second wave” you made such a big deal about a month ago. What’s the latest there?

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Do you want to say the Prime Minister of Japan; “If the death toll were high, would your people be impressed by you” Now we take everything from you as a password.

Can you imagine what the Japanese would do if THEY had to deal with Trump in charge?

Strange....and prime minister abe is still firmly supported by Japanese locals. Something wrong with this poll again as nhk is known to provide bias news by favoring communist propaganda?

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