Ellis Krauss Interviewed on Japan's Recent Election
Shinzo Abe takes office, pledges to revive Japanese economy
12/27/2012
Radio Australia
Japan's parliament gave Shinzo Abe his old job back today, off the back of his Liberal Democratic Party's dramatic landslide victory earlier this month.
He's now Japan's seventh prime minister in less than seven years. And he's named his new cabinet - giving another former PM, Taro Aso, the job of digging Japan out of persistent recession in his new post as finance minister.
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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.
