Volume 02, Number 23

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Thanks for dropping by again today. This week we focus on comments made by a long-time listener in response to my comments last week on the LDP presidential race. Our listener has known both Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda for some time, and argues that they are very different LDP leaders. And points out the differences between a parliamentary and a presidential democratic political system.

Then Dr. Edward J. Lincoln, incoming director of the Center for Japan-US Business and Economic Studies at the Stern School of Business of New York University, joins us via Skype internet hookup to explain the economics of the political debate over growing economic inequality in Japan. In the Japan Considered website Interviews section, you can read and listen to an interview with Dr. Lincoln done last year.