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His Majesty the Emperor of Japan said during the State visit to the UK by him and Her Majesty the Empress in 2024: the UK and Japan are “friends like no other”. They both studied at Oxford.
Japan adopted the Westminster political system and the modern British social and industrial system. But after the post-war period of economic growth, Japan lost three decades of economic might.
The Committee to Examine Japan’s Lost 30 Years has formulated comprehensive proposals for the fundamental reform of national governance, which will be presented at this lecture. The Committee contends that “the lost 30 years” were in fact “the 30 years we lost,” the result of political and bureaucratic inertia. At the heart of the problem lies the absence of statecraft—the strategic, long-term management of the state.
The proposals demand a decisive break from the status quo with dynastic politics. They call for deep political reform, including the prime minister’s unchecked power to dissolve the parliament, and advocate for the construction of a new framework of statecraft that unites political leadership with effective executive governance.
Can Britain help Japan to be reborn again so that Japan can support Britain’s economy and global leadership at a time of worldwide crisis?
