The results of the 2025 House of Councillors election felt both dramatic and strangely predictable. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党: Jiyū Minshutō), long known for holding together a wide ideological range, has finally lost its balance. What once functioned as a broad umbrella, accommodating both conservative nationalists and moderate reformists, has begun to fall … Continue reading A Quiet Kind of Courage →