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Japanese PM to Resign

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In Japan, when leaders fail, they fall on their swords.

In the US it seems like politicians never accept responsibility for their failures.
 
My impression wasn't really that Abe was "accepting responsibility for his failures." If that were really true, I'd imagine that he'd have resigned earlier, immediately after the elections.
 
Caspian88 said:
My impression wasn't really that Abe was "accepting responsibility for his failures." If that were really true, I'd imagine that he'd have resigned earlier, immediately after the elections.
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A lot of ministers have been found out bribing.
About the 農水省　( Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries ), I think it was the 3rd to be found guilty.
All of them ( I think ) were chosen by 安部　首相　( PM Abe ).
The first one, committed suicide.
Another minister, the former 衛生省　（Minister of Defense ) Kyuma-san, was forced to resign after he said the dropping of them bombs in 1945, could not be helped.
 
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Matteo Martini said:
A lot of ministers have been found out bribing.
About the 農水省　( Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries ), I think it was the 3rd to be found guilty.
All of them ( I think ) were chosen by 安部　首相　( PM Abe ).
The first one, committed suicide.
Another minister, the former 衛生省　（Minister of Defense ) Kyuma-san, was forced to resign after he said the dropping of them bombs in 1945, could not be helped.
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I know this, but I've been hearing about these minister scandals for some time now, and I'd think, if he really, truly, accepted responsibility for these, he would have resigned earlier.
 
Caspian88 said:
I know this, but I've been hearing about these minister scandals for some time now, and I'd think, if he really, truly, accepted responsibility for these, he would have resigned earlier.
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I think he accepted responsibility, but that does not mean stepping down when they found one of their ministers guilty.
When the ministers they found guilty became 4 or 5, he decided that the responsibility was so heavy he had to resign.
 
It really has not been so long since the election. What has it been now, about 2 months? Now it seems that he is having actual trouble getting legislation passed, and he judged that it was time for a change. The precise timing does not seem to be a big issue to me. He waited until he was certain that he could not make a comeback (sometimes politicians can bounce back), and then finally admitted that it was time to step down and let someone else take over.
 
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