Japan’s fake fury over its free-falling yen
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s political fortunes are falling almost as fast as the yen these days — and the two are closely linked. The yen has slid toward 164 against the dollar, its weakest level since 1986, driven partly by the same economic strains dragging down Takaichi’s approval ratings. A new Mainichi Shimbun poll shows her Cabinet’s support dropping 10 points to 41% in mid-July, slipping below 50% for the first time.
- ▪TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s political fortunes are falling almost as fast as the yen these days — and the two are closely linked.
- ▪The yen has slid toward 164 against the dollar, its weakest level since 1986, driven partly by the same economic strains dragging down Takaichi’s approval ratings.
- ▪A new Mainichi Shimbun poll shows her Cabinet’s support dropping 10 points to 41% in mid-July, slipping below 50% for the first time.
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TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s political fortunes are falling almost as fast as the yen these days — and the two are closely linked. The yen has slid toward 164 against the dollar, its weakest level since 1986, driven partly by the same economic strains dragging down Takaichi’s approval ratings. A new Mainichi Shimbun poll shows her Cabinet’s support dropping 10 points to 41% in mid-July, slipping below 50% for the first time. But the yen’s decline is troubling for three reasons that global markets have largely overlooked. First, it exposes how bereft the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is of fresh strategies for keeping pace with a faster-growing China. A weak yen has been the LDP’s default growth lever for 25 years.
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