Japan: Can Suga Turn Around Abe’s Lackluster Response To COVID-19? – Analysis

By Hiromi Murakami*

Newly-elected Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has announced that he will continue the policies of his predecessor Shinzo Abe. Hopefully this will not include Abe’s approach to the COVID-19 crisis.

Suga would do well to remember that Abe’s approval rates had tumbled this year because, despite...