Jake Kwan

Well, Ms. Takahichi came to the office with a promise of boosting Japan's economy, which has been sluggish for many years. And her party, the Liberal Democratic Party, barely managed to hold on to power in the last election and now has a minority government. So she has a really ambitious stimulus bill that she wants through the parliament, and this is supposed to deliver the economic boost that she promised. So to push that through with ease, she wants a large majority, and she feels now is the time.

She does. I mean, she is the first female prime minister and she is also a conservative prime minister here. And she is really flying high on her personal popularity. No Japanese prime minister has been this popular since 2012 when Shinzo Abe was in power. Now, she is clearly leveraging her popularity to have an election win here. She said today that this is a vote for her. Vote liberal democrats to keep her in power.

So she might also be betting that the public is now ready for some stability. She is Japan's fourth prime minister in five years, but her win is also far from guaranteed come February. Japan is still going through the cost of living crisis, and while she is popular, her party is not. And she has made controversial comments, hasn't she, on Taiwan that have angered China. Tell us more about that.

Back in November, when she was just elected, Ms. Takahichi suggested that Japan could send its military to defend Taiwan. This is the self-governing island that Beijing still holds claim. Of course, this is a red line for Beijing. It made Beijing very, very angry. They pulled out all kinds of tools to retaliate, including export control. You have to remember that China is Japan's number two trading partner, and this is very much so.

Kiitos, että katsoitte.

We were in the crowd of Yoon supporters who were watching this happening outside the courthouse and it became very evident that this day was not going to go the way that Mr. Yoon would have liked and the supporters started yelling abuses at the large screen where the judge was

...presenting his ruling. And what the judge was saying was that Mr. Yoon was empowered as the president and he had sworn to protect the constitution and law, but he had turned its back on them by ordering the presidential guard to prevent his arrest as well as

mitä oli käytännössä kohtuullisen monimuotoinen, kun hän päättänyt Martian lakia 10.12.2024. Tämä tulee olemaan paljon vaikutusta. Tämä on vain ensimmäinen monimuotoinen, jota hän on käynyt nyt. Ja tietenkin isompi on insurreksio, jota näemme februariin. Jake, kun puhelin on tärkeä, miten se päivä on nähty suomalaisille?

Se on varmasti suurin momentti Suomessa. Suomessa oli 44 vuotta sitten martial law. Sen jälkeen se on rakentanut asiaa suurimmasta demokraattista. Suomessa on paljon vahvaa, jota suomalaiset tykkäävät.

When the martial law happened, a lot of people were very upset, shocked, and thousands of people actually came out to the street to really put themselves in the way of armored vehicles that the military had rolled out that night. And I think some of this anger was reflected in what the judge was telling the crowd today, saying that Mr. Yoon is not showing any remorse, any repentance for what he had done, that he had plunged the country into a political crisis. Jake Kwan speaking to me from Seoul.

Thank you very much.

It was always considered too little to prevent this problem.

And every year, it seems that we have headlines of companies perhaps colluding with their competitors to engage in price fixing.

There has also been a few high-profile cases of large companies kind of throwing their weight around with their smaller suppliers and involving themselves and telling these smaller suppliers to share their trade secrets with

or to tell them whether they can engage with any other companies or not, dictating what they should do with their businesses.

So there has been this growing notion that the government needs to really up the punishment to prevent these things from happening.

So the new president is saying that the fine needs to be at a level where these companies believe that rule-breaking will lead to their ruin.

I mean, the new president, his message since he got into the office, you know, after the martial law has been that Korea is now open for business, that everything is going back to normal again.

This is a thriving democracy with a free market.

Now, the second part that