Professor Ellis Krauss Quoted by CBS News and USA Today Regarding Japan's Political Changes
09/25/2007
An article on the CBS News website quotes Professor Ellis Krauss regarding the future direction of U.S.-Japan relations resulting from recent changes in the Japanese government.
Excerpt:
After two weeks of carefully choreographed politicking that followed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement that he would step down, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elected Yasuo Fukuda as the party's president Sunday - a move that guarantees his succession to Japan's top post.
Fukuda is seen as more dovish and less assertive than Abe. That helped him best his main opponent, Taro Aso, whose closeness to Abe in terms of his nationalist outlook helped boost perceptions of Fukuda as a more conciliatory choice, especially in foreign relations.
"[Fukuda] will probably try to balance continued strong U.S.-Japan relations with more sensitive and closer Japan-Asia relations," says Ellis Krauss, professor of Japanese politics and policymaking at the University of California, San Diego.
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