Has Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda really resigned, quit? Didn't he just put his "team" together? ?

Question

What's going on here? Is anyone as surprised as I am? Or did you see it coming?

Answer 1

And the search for the 11th PM since 1993 begins...pretty disgraceful.

Answer 2

Prime Minister Fukuda has been the PM for almost a year. He's had horrible approval ratings almost from the beginning so it's not really a big surprise that he's decided to resign. He did reaarange his cabinet early last month but that wasn't able to give him any kind of boost. A recent scandal involving one of his ministers probably didn't help him either.

From what I've seen on TV, his resignation will not be effective immeadiately. He will remain in office until his party (the LDP) can elect a new party head.

Mr. Fukuda's been around politics for his entire life. He comes from a family of politicians so maybe he's just burned out. He may be an excellent administrator but he's not a dynamic public figure and did nothing policy wise to get the Japanese public behind him. There were even members of his own party that were unhappy with some of his positions and some were openly critical of him.

The LDP is still suffering from a post-Koizumi hangover. Shinzo Abe couldn't handle the pressure and now Fukuda has fallen by the wayside too. Koizumi was able to use his popularity and political muscle to keep his own party in line. Once he left, the old guard of the LDP tried to regain it's influence and control over policy. Fukuda was going to be forced to call a special election anyway so he was probably pressured to resign so that the LDP would not have his lack of popularity dragging down their candidates.

Answer 3

Japan PM Fukuda announced resignation about 30 minutes  ago.

Answer 4

Yes,　he is going to resign.

But most of us knew he was a tentative PM, so I wasn't surprised.

I think his resignation is favorable for LDP, because he has never been popular during his term of office.

Also good for bureaucrats, they like to make no progress.

Even if LDP changes their head, the party will never change their policy.

Thus Japan will stay as officialdom-centered country:(:(:(

Answer 5

No, he hasn't resign.

Answer 6

not officially yet but he has announced his resignation