Politics, Japan & Pakistan
Over the past week, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is also the head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has fired his own party and four powerful cabinet ministers over allegations of corruption in political fundraising. This caused a stir in Japan’s politics. However, such important dismissals in the government did not weaken the government and did not cause a blow to the economy of Japan, rather Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has also appointed new ministers to these four positions and the new ministers have assumed their responsibilities and started working.
Among the most important posts that the Japanese Prime Minister has fired his ministers from are the party’s policy chief Koichi Hagyoda, who was accused of corruption in party funding, on which he submitted his resignation to the Prime Minister himself and he accepted, while at the same time the Prime Minister also dismissed Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tsuyoshi Takagi, who was accused of not disclosing hundreds of millions of dollars collected in the name of party funding. Earlier, the Japanese Prime Minister dismissed four federal ministers on December 14 under various charges, the fact is that the dismissal of ministers is a common thing in Japan’s democratic politics and these dismissals are done even for small mistakes. In which some important ministers were dismissed in the past just because they had attended a dinner for a business organization that used to take contracts from the minister’s ministry. Therefore, the minister was accused of protecting the interests and was removed. In the same way, Prime Ministers are changed in Japan, and there are fights in the assemblies, but all these issues have never had an impact on the economy of Japan, never on these political issues. Japan’s stock exchange was not affected by the incident, nor did the incoming government change the policies of the outgoing government. This is the reason why long-term policies are made in Japan, which is why Japanese investors know that the coming and going of governments will not affect their business, so the continuity of the Japanese economy is maintained.
In this regard, an expert in political and economic affairs of Japan, who has been engaged in efforts to attract Japanese investors to invest in Pakistan for the past forty years, and because of his efforts, he was made a Japanese emperor by the Japanese government. He said that he has seen dozens of governments come and go in Japan during the last forty years, but until today, Japanese politics has never been compared to the Japanese economy but did not see any effect. On the other hand, none of Japan’s governments have tried to weaken Japanese institutions, due to which the formation and termination of governments has no effect on Japan’s economic and trade policies and institutions continue to function optimally. , while on the contrary, the government in Pakistan is a distant thing, if even an important minister is changed, then the stock exchange gets agitated and the country loses billions.
According to them, if there is a train accident all over the world, the railway minister resigns, but in our country neither the minister resigns nor the Prime Minister has the courage to fire the minister because the prime minister fears that if the minister is fired, the Prime Minister’s government will not end. According to them, the police of Japan is so powerful that the biggest minister can be arrested on corruption charges, while the false accuser, no matter how influential a person is, no one can save him from being punished for the crime of making a false accusation, so Pakistan needs to learn a lot from Japan’s politics, according to which institutions should be strengthened in Pakistan, politics and economy should be kept separate, every institution of the state should work together to strengthen democracy And most importantly, to avoid harming the state, of which there are many examples in the past, Pakistan must learn many important things from Japan, such as differences in politics and economics, long-term economic policies and building strong institutions. Otherwise we will fall further behind in the race of development.