Akio Yaita bluntly said that Nobuo Kishi was the most stubborn and most supportive defense minister in Japan’s history toward China. “This is a big loss for Taiwan,” while the newly appointed defense minister, Yasuichi Hamada, “is a lone bird.” Figure: Taken from the Ministry of Defense Facebook (file photo)
Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President (Party Chairman) Fumio Kishida on the 10th reshuffled the cabinet and party affairs directors. Nobuo Kishi, the younger brother of the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will step down from the post of Defense Minister to serve as the Prime Minister’s assistant in charge of national security affairs. In this regard, Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of the Japanese media Sankei Shimbun, said bluntly that Nobuo Kishi is the strongest and most supportive minister of defense against China in Japanese history. “This is a big loss for Taiwan.” “It’s a lone bird.”
Akio Yaita posted on Facebook that Fumio Kishida restructured the cabinet and weakened some of the Abe factions. At this time, he suddenly decided to adjust the personnel of the cabinet. There are three reasons. First, the domestic epidemic is counterattacking, and the cabinet support rate has declined. Some new faces, see if you can boost morale a bit.
Second, he believes that after Abe’s assassination, the opposition party and the media have been chasing the relationship between the religious group “Unification Church” and the Liberal Democratic Party, the religious group that caused Abe’s assassination. With the support of the Unification Church, “Kishida was afraid that this matter would become more and more fired, and it would be difficult to deal with it in the future, so he wanted to quickly replace the officials who had something to do with the Unification Church.
Third, he pointed out that in the presidential election of the Liberal Democratic Party last year, Kishida won the support of the Abe faction, the Aso faction, and the Motegi faction. The personnel arrangement after the election focused on taking care of these three factions. This time, the cabinet reshuffle has enabled powerful factions such as Taro Kono, who was left out after the presidential election, to create an impression of unity throughout the party.
Akio Yaita analyzed that there are three points of interest in this personnel arrangement. First, Nobuo Kishi left the position of Minister of Defense and was replaced by Yasuichi Hamada, who is not shy. “This is a big loss for Taiwan.” Nobuo Kishi is from Japan. During his tenure in office, he led the publication of two defense white papers and made two major breakthroughs on the Taiwan issue.
The newly appointed Minister of Defense, Yasuichi Hamada, belongs to a dovish role in the political spectrum of the Liberal Democratic Party, and in the party, there is no big brother, no younger brother, he is a lonely bird, and his policy execution is not very strong. , In Kishida’s view, he will be a good subordinate who is more obedient and less troublesome.
The second point to watch is Takaichi Sanae, Yaita Akio said that she left the important position of the Liberal Democratic Party’s political investigation chairman and was appointed as the Minister of Economic Security, which is equivalent to being demoted by half a rank. However, in the future, facing the issue of decoupling the Japanese economy from China, the position of the Minister of Economy and Security is also very important. If she can make achievements and prove her strength, she will have the opportunity to challenge the Prime Minister again in a few years. After all, Takaichi Sanae has fully inherited the policies of Shinzo Abe in terms of internal affairs, foreign affairs, security and other policies, and many people in Japan also expect that she will become Japan’s first female prime minister.
Thirdly, as one of the leaders of the Mesozoic generation of the Abe faction, Koichi Hagiuta, the new chairman of the Political Consultative Committee, can take this important position at this time, which shows that he has the full trust of Prime Minister Kishida. He has visited Taiwan many times and, like Abe, he is very supportive of Taiwan on many issues.”
The third is Koichi Hagiita, the new chairman of the Political Consultative Committee. Akio Yaita mentioned that, as one of the Mesozoic leaders of the Abe faction, being able to hold this important position at this time shows that he has the full trust of Prime Minister Kishida. Maybe soon, the Abe faction will be renamed the Hagi Ikuta faction. Hagi Ikuta Koichi has visited Taiwan many times. On many issues, “he is very supportive of Taiwan, just like Abe.”