Abe’s back, back, back, back, back…….. gone!!!
Just watching a news conference with J-colleagues and Shinzo Abe, I believe is in the process of resigning. 
So much for his “Beautiful Japan”. The final straw came for him when he declared at the end of last week that if people didn’t support him on the military in Afghanistan, he would resign. He expected people would rally round him like they did with Koizumi to an extent. They didn’t, and most were saying good riddance.
There’s a strange buzz going round the office at the moment. Have to say it made for a great UN lesson at my school. The story started to break just as the class started, so I announced it in our “world news” section. The kids started to get interested and spent a lot of the class researching, shouting out news as they found it on the net and were genuinely interested in what was happening.
So, what does the future hold for the Japanese government? Well, a few weeks ago Taro Aso was mentioned as being a possible successor. At the moment the story has only just come out but I’ll follow-up with more information as it comes in
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