Anonymous
asked: Abe was like the longest serving Prime Minister EVER ad it wasn't even close but at the same time he didn't even serve that long. Like a less-than-average time for other parliamentary systems.
answered:
Yeah very strange. Japan has like very stable politics too, so it must just not be seen as that important or desirable of a job, if people are so easily willing to resign.
The Japanese Diet political economy is more or less based on the LDP having a lock but divided into fairly content-free internal factions that rotate in power and every MP being cycled through cabinet posts for a chance at pork/publicity. It was someone else’s turn.