Land of the rising shun? Immigration and Japan’s politics
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The Economist
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated the country’s politics for seven decades, just got a pasting at the polls—again. We ask why staid politics are getting swiftly messy. Iceland is a NATO member in a volatile region; at last it must consider raising its own army. And the tricky balance of company culture, job satisfaction and working from home.
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