Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida “is the heir” of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who died after the events in Nara, but “we will have to see what will happen in the Liberal Democratic Party” because Shinzo Abe “was the great playmaker of Japanese politics, above all of the Liberal Democratic Party “and” it is not clear who can replace him “. This is how he answers the questions put forward by time.news Francesco Sisci, an expert on Asia.
“We need to see in the next few hours and days how Japan reacts – he observes – how the region reacts”. So, “whether or not this assassination becomes an occasion for further controversy”. And “we have to see how the reactions” of the two Asian giants, China and India will be received in Japan, because, as Shinzo Abe points out, “had been the proponent of a tougher policy with China and instead the architect of the ‘rapprochement’ with China. India”.
‘very rare use of arms, disturbing reappear after a century in a region marked by tensions’
Shinzo Abe “was very popular”, he was a “man of the conservative right, but not the extreme right”, Sisci points out, when the reasons for what happened in the past few hours in Nara are still unknown. But, he recalls, “between the 1920s and 1930s there were three attacks on the emperor, there were a series of assassination attempts or political assassinations” and at the time “many of these attackers, not all of them, were far-right elements. who considered the government at the time too ‘soft’ “.
In Japan “there is this ‘tradition'”, but “recourse to arms is very rare”. And it is “disturbing that after a century it will reappear”. The question, he points out, is whether it is an “isolated case or whether there is a wider resentment”. “Today we don’t know what’s behind it, if there are others” and, he remarks, “we are in a new situation”. “Of course – he concludes – it is very disturbing because the region is in a situation of tension”.