Ken'ichi Ikeda

Oct 24, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Andrew J. Nathan |Zongyuan Liu |Ken'ichi Ikeda Routledge |Ken'ichi Ikeda

In This Review In This Review Contemporary Japanese Politics and Anxiety Over GovernanceThe Japanese public’s assessments of its government’s performance have been anemic for years, but Ikeda finds that the COVID-19 crisis crystallized an even more pessimistic attitude: the fear that the government is not capable of solving potential future problems, such as job insecurity, terrorism, and war.