Commentary
Japan held its election for the Diet Lower House (think: U.S. House of Representatives) on Oct. 31. Japanese elections rarely result in drastic change—and this one didn’t, either.
Japan's Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Fumio Kishida (3rd-right) poses with key party members as he puts rosettes by successful general election candidates' names on a board at the party headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 31, 2021. Behrouz Mehri/Pool via AP
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Grant Newsham
Author
Grant Newsham is a retired U.S. Marine officer and a former U.S. diplomat and business executive with many years in the Asia/Pacific region. He is a senior fellow with the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (Tokyo) and Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the best selling book “When China Attacks: A Warning to America.”
