2025-02-19
23 分钟The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Bloor.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Japan is late to this, but it might finally be having a Me Too moment.
Our correspondent reports that although attitudes are slow to change among the country's elite,
popular outrage about assault is rising.
And I take a little trip to a vanishing slice of London life, the pie and mash shop.
We ask why this cheap but calorific meal is harder and harder to find and try something called liquor that isn't.
First up, though.
It's the last week before Germany's federal election and the parties are making their last-ditch pitches.
On both Sunday and Monday, the top four party leaders went head-to-head,
to head-to-head in TV debates.
Alisa Weidl, who heads the hard-right alternative for Germany or AFD party,
has been sticking to her usual talking points,
banishing criminal migrants and closing borders.
Robert Habeck, the Green Party, called out Donald Trump and Elon Musk,
allied to extend the boundaries of power.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats also lamented America's rhetorical meddling and backing of the AFD.
All the while Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democrats,