Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is in crisis over a political slush fund scandal that has eroded public trust in Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration and upended the governing party’s system of political factions.
Kishida looks unlikely to survive as PM beyond the end of his term as LDP leader in September. The scandal is about underreported income from political fundraising party tickets sold by LDP factions.
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Ben Ascione is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. He is also the Japan editor at East Asia Forum and a research associate at the Japan Centre for International Exchange.
