Young star in the Cabinet as a move Abe’s

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With Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe has brought to a popular rising politician to the Cabinet – and a critical voice. Abe aims to secure broad support for his project of the amendment to the Constitution.

A “rising star” ends calls him “Mainichi Shimbun”, “The Public he is a well-known” highlights “Yomiuri Shimbun” and “Asahi Shimbun” commented: “Now is tested and its political integrity.” The three highest circulation daily Newspapers in Japan treat the man, the post on his first Minister in the environment portfolio – was called, even now, as a political star. After all, Shinjiro Koizumi has been declared in a survey of the Japanese Public in may the most popular candidate as the next Prime Minister.

In a Cabinet reshuffle, the the since now, almost seven years reigning Premier Shinzo Abe (in office until 2021) announced on Wednesday the appointment of Koizumi, a strange mixture of fulfilled expectation and Surprise. Was expected the carriage on the one hand, because Shinjiro Koizumi is a politician atypical popular. He is regarded as handsome, charismatic and with a sharp tongue blessed. In addition, he is the son of Ex-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2001-20006), a liberal reformer, is highly appreciated for its modern appearance. That Koizumi junior, who inherited in 2009, his constituency from the father, and since then, the Parliament sits, would ascend to the top policy ranks, was only a matter of time.

Koizumi’s father, Junichiro wanted to take 2001 as the Premier fresh Wind in Japan’s policy. But also, he attended – and later his son – the controversial Yasukuni soldiers Shrine.

Conservative and modern at the same time

This carriage would have to be done now, is a political Sensation. Japan is an age of hierarchically organized society, in particular, the policy is decried, to hear young voices. Shinjiro Koizumi, with its 38 years, the third youngest Minister of the post-war history of the country. And even though he is alone by his membership in the LDP’s conservative Establishment and by visits to the Yasukuni Shrine his Patriotic sentiments expressed, is Koizumi also noticed due to its cosmopolitan and modern setting.

Koizumi has studied in New York, in Washington, DC for a Think Tank and worked with the popular news anchor Christel Takigawa, with the help of which he expected at the beginning of next year. He announced to want to then in paternity time to go, what aroused in Japan, where, among other things, by pressure on the job barely six per cent of men dare to take this step, for plenty of media attention. In addition, he demanded that women should in future have the possibility to retain, after marriage, her maiden name.

The political young star has already presented as a critic of the government. Like his father, he became, after the nuclear disaster of Fukushima in 2011 a declared opponent of nuclear energy. After his appointment to the Minister of the environment, Koizumi said for dealing with aging nuclear power plants now: “I’m going to find out how you can remove them instead of keeping them.” There is also a clear message to the Prime Minister was to listen to the rather longer run times and new power plants would have.

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The Project Amendment To The Constitution

For Premier Shinto Abe the transport of Koizumi’s is in the government’s strategic move. He serves the balance of interests within the conservative liberal democratic party, divided in factions. By Abe makes a critic to a Partner, he hopes to strengthen his own projects, for which he needed broad support.

Because Abe’s biggest goal is a paraphrase of the pacifist Constitution, which was written after the Second world war, mainly by the USA and the country under all circumstances, the conduct of war prohibits is. Article 9, which prohibits the country theoretically, an army, would Abe prefer, or at least weaken. Nationalists like him are of the opinion that Japan need a Constitution without foreign dictated the elements to be a truly sovereign global state.

After the accident of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima in 2011, nuclear power in Japan remains controversial. Responsible Shinjiro Kozumi as the Minister of the environment is now.

Koizumi’s appointment should appease opponents

China’s dominant Occur and the unpredictability of North Korea relies Abe’s projects though. Nevertheless, the thing is, for years, difficult. For a constitutional amendment, two-thirds majorities in both chambers of the Japanese Parliament and a simple majority in a referendum would need, Abe. Currently, he has only in a chamber of the necessary conditions. In addition, the majority of Japanese people want to preserve the Constitution, which means peace and prosperity, guarantee, in your current state. In July, 56 percent said in a survey that they are against a constitutional amendment.

With Shinjiro Koizumi in the government Cabinet, Abe signaled now something like readiness for dialogue, which is not only radiation to the Parliament, but also to the voters of the people. Finally, Abe noticed in the past more by its unwillingness to compromise. A safety law, the whistle-blowing and reporting to state secrets explained topics with the prison can be punished, pushed through against resistance, as a “Reinterpretation” of the Constitution in the sense of a greater freedom to military operations abroad. The latter of course only as a precursor to the desired “correct” amendment to the Constitution.