Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga now belongs to the ranks of those who stumbled upon their corona policy.
The country has had many heads of government since the turn of the millennium.
Suga's tenure is one of the shortest.
He can largely attribute that to himself.
The pandemic initially got Japan under control quite well last year.
But when vaccines became available, the country lost touch.
The rate of vaccination left a lot to be desired, which the citizens of the government chalked up.
The iron clinging to hosting the Olympic Games also contributed to the fact that the polls for Suga kept falling.
The LDP almost always wins
Since the most important parliamentary chamber, the lower house, will be re-elected this year, the withdrawal of the unpopular head of government from the perspective of the ruling party LDP was possibly the rescue at almost the last minute.
On the other hand, the political landscape in Japan is structured in such a way that the LDP usually wins even when its leading representatives are once again very unpopular and / or involved in scandals.
To this day, the opposition parties have not managed to establish themselves as a viable alternative to the eternal governing party over a longer period of time. The experiences after 2009 do not encourage imitation. It will probably continue like this after Suga, as almost always in Japan.