I had sent an announcement of a panel discussion on post-election Abe Japan around last week. The panel met on Jan 23 and discussion was quite lively.

For an archived version of the webcast, see http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/c
e434facbb64415aa8cd5c2ef4a17d2e1d

The webcast offers a video record that's synchronized with the PPTs panelists used during the discussion.
Note that the video takes a moment to get started in your browser window.

Alternatively, see
http://storify.com/CdnAsiaEvents/japan-election-panel-d
iscussion-at-ubc/ for a record of live-tweets during the event.

As a reminder, the panel included:

Ben Nyblade (UBC, Political Science)
Overview of the Election: Factors Behind the DPJ's Collapse and the Role of Prime Minister Leadership

Ikuo Kume (Waseda University, Visiting Scholar at Institute of Europen Studies/Political Science, UBC) Policy Positions and Party Cohesion in Japan: Results from a Pre-election Candidate Survey and Policy Space Analysis

Go Murakami (UBC, Political Science)
Public Opinion Clues behind a Lopsided Election; What Happened to Third-force Parties?

Yves Tiberghien (UBC, Institute of Asian Research and Political Science) Abenomics and the New Trajectory of Japan's Economy; Fiscal Policy, BoJ Autonomy, TPP, and Energy Policy

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki (Simon Fraser University, Political
Science) Abe's Foreign Policy - What Can We Expect?