Ellis Krauss on Prime Minister Noda's Victory in Democratic Party of Japan Race
Noda’s Election Decision Looms After Winning Japan Party Contest
09/21/2012
Isabel Reynolds and Takashi Hirokawa,
Bloomberg
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s victory in a ruling party leadership race brings him closer to a decision on whether to call elections as he confronts a slowing economy and a territorial spat with China.
Noda won yesterday’s Democratic Party of Japan contest, allowing him to remain premier because the DPJ controls the more powerful lower house of parliament. The main oppositionLiberal Democratic Party chooses its leader next week, increasing pressure on Noda to sell himself to voters ahead of an election he must call by August 2013.
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Ellis Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations, and Japan's political economy. In 2010 Cornell University Press will publish his latest book, co-authored with Robert Pekkanen of the University of Washington, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Institutions.
He can provide commentary on domestic politics in Japan, the Japanese mass media, U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's foreign policy and role in Asia.
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