“Democratic leaders around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to exercise strong leadership and maintain public support. There is nowhere that this has proven to be as challenging of a task as Japan, which has seen its top leaders change more often over the past 25 years than any other major country in the world. Why do Japan’s prime ministers find it so difficult to project strong leadership, or even stay in office?”
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A review of JCIE’s publication, Looking for Leadership, which resulted from a program on the Vacuum of Political Leadership in Japan and Its Future Trajectory.
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