The last few months have been abundant with shifts and change. Japan has welcomed its new government and despite the low approval rate, PM Ishiba's Cabinet continues to search for ways to ensure that the LDP will be able to pass important policies for as long as it stays in power. The question, though is, how long will the current government last?

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Timestamps
0:00 Opening & Intro
6:41 Extraordinary Diet Session: Balancing Reforms, Budgets, and Political Shifts
28:43 Akie Abe visits President-Elect Trump at Mar-a-lago
30:23 Turmoil in South Korea
32:11 Influenza cases surge across Japan
Questions
35:51 In his interview with the Yomiuri, Ishiba intimate the possibility of dissolving the lower house if there were a no-confidence motion carried in the upcoming session, thereby precipitating a combined Upper and Lower House election, is this a threat to make Lower House members reluctant to support a no-confidence motion?
44:40 Until the next session begins where will politicians go and what will they be doing, what should we pay attention to?
46:41 What are the main goals for the amendment of the immigration control act?
50:16 Do you have any insights on Japan’s pension reforms and how it could change the way that trillions of yen are invested?


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