ChinaTalk: Where Japan Goes Next
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Tobias Harris of the Observing Japan substack joins to discuss the latest Japanese election, how we got here, and what happens next.
In this episode we discuss
- How Abe’s assassination led to the LDP’s three years of struggles,
- What the latest results in the upper house election tell us about domestic Japanese politics,
- What's the deal with big winners like Kōmeitō and the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP),
- How domestic dynamics tie into U.S.-Japan and China-Japan relations
Outro music: The Communist Party’s 2025 Gender song - (YouTube Link)
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Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."
