, Columnist
Japan’s New Centrist Opposition Might Merely Be Mid
Japan’s opposition needs to embrace the future.
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Sanae Takaichi must have thought it was all coming together.
As Japan’s prime minister dazzled last week on social media — drumming with her South Korean counterpart Lee Jae Myung, followed by anime selfies with Italian leader Giorgia Meloni — she was also drafting plans to call a snap election that her polling numbers suggested could be a coronation.