Government Strategies Amidst Unrest and Public Response

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This chapter examines the government's strategies in responding to civil unrest while navigating the complexities of the criminal justice system. It highlights the struggle between implementing effective deterrents and addressing the challenges presented by court backlogs and limited prison capacities.

Unrest across the country has been driven in part by the provably false claims of right-wing provocateurs. We examine the real concerns underlying the violence, and how to end it swiftly. Japanese politics had until recently been anachronistically tame; not so now that the social-media populists have arrived (10:18). And the notable parallels between “House of the Dragon” and modern politics (18:00).

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