April 20, 2007
Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days

April 19, 2007
Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Heizo Takenaka
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Part 4: By Encouraging Reforms, the Government is not Advocating Socialism.
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Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Heizo Takenaka
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Part 3: The Political Administration Should be Comprised of only Those who Demonstrate Their Abilities.
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April 17, 2007
Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Heizo Takenaka
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Part 2: Historic Tasks Being Asked of the Abe Administration.
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Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Heizo Takenaka
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Part 1: The Issue of Creating an Agenda.
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Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Sasaki Takeshi
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Part 4: The Duality in the Relationship With Koizumi’s Government.
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April 12, 2007
Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Sasaki Takeshi
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Part 3: Shinzo Abe’s Government Needs to Deal with the Design of a New Way of Working and a New Way of Life for the Japanese People.
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April 11, 2007
Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Sasaki Takeshi
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Part 2: Shinzo Abe’s Government: Its Visible Weaknesses, Perceptions of it and its Agenda Setting.
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Shinzo Abe's First 100 Days: Sasaki Takeshi
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Part 1: Why is Prime Minister Abe’s Message of "A Beautiful Country, Japan" Failing to Get Across?
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January 29, 2007
Yasushi Kudo’s Opinion Poll Analysis: Part4 – Final Installment
With this we come to the final part of the analysis. Now I would like to try to analyze the respondents’ evaluations of Shinzo Abe’s government’s achievements during its first 100 days.
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January 24, 2007
Yasushi Kudo’s Opinion Poll Analysis: Part3 – Separate Reasons Causing the Gap in Support Between Government Officials and Members of the Media
In order to gain a clearer picture of respondents’ perceptions of Shinzo Abe’s government, we created several questions. As far as possible we tried to create these questions based on the manifesto assessment criteria that Genron NPO uses for its Manifesto Assessment Projects.
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January 18, 2007
Yasushi Kudo’s Opinion Poll Analysis: Part2 – Change in Support for and Expectations of Shinzo Abe’s Government.
The results of our opinion poll have been used by several newspapers. They have been looked at in various ways but newspapers have generally focused on the fact that the level of support for Shinzo Abe’s government is remarkably low in comparison to other opinion polls.
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January 17, 2007
Yasushi Kudo’s Opinion Poll Analysis: Part1 – Two Things to Note Before Analyzing The Results of the Opinion Poll.
Bridging the New Year from the end of last year until now, we managed to collate the results of Genron NPO’s “Shinzo Abe’s First 100 Days” opinion poll and publish them on January 9 on our website. Firstly, please allow me to take this opportunity to kindly thank everyone who took part in this project.
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January 12, 2007
Evaluation of the first 100 days of Shinzo Abe's administration.
The overall consensus: “It’s performance falls short of my expectations”, “I had no expectations of it to begin with”. 70% “Still cannot discern what policies the government is pursuing.”
See the Detailed Results and Graphs here (PDF)
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April 10, 2006
[talk] Global Eyes On post-Koizumi Japan

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June 22, 2005
[talk] International Assessment of The First Koizumi Cabinet
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May 15, 2002
[talk] Chain of Scandals Generated by Distorted Party Politics in Japan
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[interview] Structure of "Routine Organizing" Apparent in Yokohama Mayoral Election
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[talk] No Time Left for Political System Reform
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[talk] How Can the Policymaking Function of Political Parties and National Diet Members be Enhanced?
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[talk] The Flow of Political Money Should Be Put under Public Surveillance
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[talk] The Challenges and the oppotunities of Japan's Reform
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March 29, 2002
[paper] Flawed Logic Destabilizing the World Financial System
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March 16, 2002
[talk] A Politicians' round-table discussion ―Is it Possible to Create a Government-Led Political Decision-Making System?―
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[talk] "Breaking Down Cozy Relations between Politicians and Bureaucrats"
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[talk] Reviewing the Bureaucratic Policy Decision-Making System ---The Role of Policy Aides---
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[paper] Article by Sir Hugh Cortazzi for Genron
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[paper] Conquer the Culture of Co-Dependence Among Politicians, Bureaucrats and Businesses
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February 22, 2002
[talk] The 2nd Conference of the Genron NPO Advisory Board - What is questioned on "the Reform of Japan"?
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[paper] Prime Minister Koizumi, please strategically reconstruct the structural reform!
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[talk] Counter-Deflationary Measures vs. Bad Loan Disposal
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[talk] Implementing structural reform while generating demand and coping with unemployment issues
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[talk] Let's join hands with NPOs and drive the maturity of local governments.
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December 27, 2001
[talk] What should be questioned in the realization of the Prime Minister's Leadership
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[paper] To Proceed with the Structural Reforms of Politics
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[interview] Reform of the Liberal Democratic Party and Proposals for Partial Policy Association
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[talk] How to Proceed with the Prime Minister led reforms
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[talk] The Role of Bureaucrats in the Politician Led System
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[talk] Genron NPO Economists Meeting
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[paper] The Bush administration's re-evaluation of the Koizumi reforms
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[talk] Genron Foreign Journalists roundtable Discussion with Foreign Correspondents
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August 10, 2001
[paper] Populism and Koizumi Politics
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[paper] How Should the Koizumi Government Resolve the Essential Contradiction?
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[interview] The Future of the Koizumi Administration Viewed in the Context of the Modern History of Japan
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[paper] WHY THE MARKETS CAST DOUBT ON THE REFORMS OF THE KOIZUMI ADMINISTRATION
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[talk] Magazine Journalism's Future in a Period of Recession in Discussion and Presentation of Issues
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[talk] Will the Structural Reforms of the Koizumi Administration Succeed?
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[paper] Gist of the Koizumi Cabinet's Structural Reform
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