JET経験者のブログ · 2024/12/14
豊後大野での生活は、大阪や東京の賑やかな大都会とは隔世の感があるが、親切やコミュニティ、思いがけない文化交流の機会には事欠かない。
地方のJET参加者の多くが、小さなコミュニティーに身を置くことがユニークで特別な経験であることに同意すると確信している。
きみさん、かあちゃん、みつこさんのような人たちは、多くの日本人が外国人を温かく迎えてくれることを象徴している。
何年か先にも、彼らが英会話グループに参加し続け、未来のJET参加者と友情を築いてくれることを願っている。
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
Ruling Parties Lost The Majority Of The House Of Representatives In the House of Representatives election on October 27, the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito suffered a major defeat, losing a combined total of 64 seats and forfeiting their majority. Meanwhile, the largest opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ), significantly expanded its power, increasing from 98 to 148 seats, and other opposition parties, except for the Japan...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. Ishiba Reversed LDP’s Downtrend But Not Strong Enough As reported last time, Ishiba as new President of LDP was elected as the 102nd PM in the extraordinary Diet session on October 1 and formed his first cabinet on the same day. And then, he dissolved the House of Representatives on October 9 and set a general election date as October 27. It is just 8 days from the formation of the cabinet up to the dissolution of the lower house, which is the shortest record ever since the end of the...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. Ishiba As New PM Made It Clear To Dissolve The House Of Representatives Ruling LDP’s presidential election was held on September 27 and no candidate was able to secure a majority share of the effective votes in the first round. In its succeeding runoff, Mr. Shigeru Ishiba, who received the second largest ballots in the first voting was able to come from behind Ms. Sanae Takaichi to win the party presidency. Although Ishiba had been against LDP’s mainstream groups like the Aso faction and...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. Ishiba, Takaichi and Koizumi Lead The Post Kishida Race Since the previous digest that reported about a dozen hopefuls to run for the post Kishida race, nine of them were eventually qualified as official candidates by being able to collect recommendations of 20 or more Diet members individually. According to Yomiuri’s survey, which was conducted on September 14 and 15, Mr. Shigeru Ishiba, Mr. Shinjiro Koiumi and Ms. Sanae Takaichi are most popular candidates so far in terms of registered...
Japan Digest · 2024/11/04
1. A Dozen Hopefuls To Run For The Post Kishida Race In the wake of PM Kishida’s recent announcement that he would not run for reelection of the LDP’s presidency in September, twelve Diet members of LDP reportedly showed interest in running for the post Kishida race. Kishida Cabinet’s approval ratings have been in 20%s since November last year according to NHK’s monthly survey. Strong public dissatisfaction against LDP’s political fund handling practices has not allowed the approval...
