Izumi Kenta wants to shake up Japan’s opposition
The centre-left leader tells The Economist his plan for a more serious politics
IZUMI KENTA, the leader of Japan’s main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), is itching for change. In an interview with The Economist, the self-declared progressive laments the country’s slow growth and demographic woes. The culprit, he reckons, is the conservative rule of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has endured for most of the past seven decades. “Old values have kept sucking the country’s vitality,” says Mr Izumi. “We want to change things.”
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Can the centre-left be revived?”
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