New Japanese Prime Minister

Hello!


 Yesterday, new Japanese prime minister was elected in parliament.

 His name is Yoshihiko Noda, former minister of Finance.

 I'm glad at hearing that news because he grew in my home city and graduated the high school which I graduated.
 And I often saw him on the way to our high school.


 I think he can be good prime minister. There are some reason except I wish so because he is graduate our high school.


 First, in Japan, having
・Jiban(having many supporters in area of election before being elected)
・Kaban (owning much money)
・Kanban(being famous before being elected or son or daughter of famous politician)
 is very effective to be elected legislators.

 But he didn't have these things. He is son of the member of Self-Defense Forces (Our city has big Base of that.)
 And he graduated Public high school and one of the most famous private university in Japan.
 After that, he studied to be politician at Matsushita Politics and Economics School.

 He can be famous politician because of his talent, not his family like some prime ministers who resign in this five years.


 Second, I think he always suggest the reason of what he says.
 He is said that he is good at speech. I think so, too and the reason is he always speech logically.


 But, he'll face with many problems.

 First, he has to recover Japan from disaster at3.11.
 He said government might impose taxes for recovery.
 It's true that we can't expect to improve our economy because our industries are suffered from that disaster and world economy is also not good.
 But, imposing taxes may make our economy worse because we don't want to buy products although economy is still not good.

 Second, he has to deal with accident of nuclear power plant.
 Even now, it's not sure how bad that accident was.
 Many refugee feel anxious because they don't know not only when they can go back their home town, but also if they can go back there.
 And, these days, some people say we have to stop all nuclear power plants. But, other people say stopping all nuclear power plants may cause the electricity crisis.
 This is difficult decision if we deal with nuclear power plants. But new prime minister have the responsibility to decide it.

 Third, Japanese finance situation is very bad. So, some people say raise VAT.
 Now, VAT rate is only 5%. I think this rate is very low. For example, in Ireland, where I stayed for 1 month, the rate is 21%.
 But, Japanese economical situation is bad, and some people don't want to raise it.
 Mr. Noda want to raise that. So, it's the problem that he can do that.

 Finally, Japan has to improve relationship between other countries.
 Last few years, Japanese diplomacy has been bad. Conflict with America in the problem of base of American national army in Okinawa. Conflict with China in the problem of Senkaku Islands.
 So, new prime minister has to suggest diplomatic policy and make the effort to improve the relationships.


 It's difficult to be prime minister now. I hope Mr. Noda improve those problems and continue prime minister long time.