Seminar “Japan at the Stage of Political Turbulence”

Abstract

In October 2025, the cabinet of Sanae Takaichi came to power in Japan. On October 4, she was elected President of the Liberal Democratic Party and became the first female prime minister in the history of Japan. On October 30, 2025, MGIMO University hosted a seminar on the political events of the past month: the internal party struggle during the election of the party president, the collapse of the ruling coalition due to the departure of the Komeito Party, as well as the formation of a new “minority coalition” with the participation of the Japan Innovation Party. The seminar participants analyzed these events in detail, considered the domestic political problems facing the Takaichi cabinet and gave their own vision of the prospects for the development of the situation, both in the socio-economic sphere and in the field of foreign policy. This publication contains a transcript of this seminar.