news - Political Mess on Provisional Gas Tax

I'll report a turmoil that happened in Japan.

From March to late April, political disorder caused Japanese people to be furious against their government. Its provisional gas tax expired at the end of March, and then gas prices in Japan went down around 30 yen a liter. Although the nationals enjoyed this windfall profits, it wouldn't last so long.

At the end of April, a new gas tax was introduced, and the gas prices went up steeply around the original prices. People got furious, and their trusts to government collapsed to the ever-worst extent.

The root cause of this matter was a lack of leadership of the ruling party, LDP, and the prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, as well as namely twisted power structure, which is that LDP dominates in the lower house while the opposition party, DPJ, dominates in the upper house.

I, who always see Barack Obama, who has a new kind of leadership, and dynamic American politics, feel deep disappointment in this situation, and hope that new politics will emerge in the near future even in this country presumably considered a developing country in terms of politics.


This is a report from a person who struggles to attain a certain level of language skills.