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...recently hurt his own cause by remarking that he did not support the privatization of Japan's huge postal savings system - a key financial reform that Koizumi pushed through in 2005. Koizumi said on Feb. 12 that Aso's comments made him "flabbergasted to the point that I want to laugh." Koizumi also expressed doubts about Aso's stimulus package and his ability to lead the LDP in upcoming parliamentary elections. Gerald Curtis, professor of political science at Columbia University, says there is an obvious rift in the LDP. Koizumi's attack on Aso was a way of "throwing down...
...must call a general election by September, and one could come as early as April. But as his approval ratings plummet, speculation is increasing that he will be forced to step down soon. "There's no optimistic short-term scenario for Japan," says Curtis. "The economy will get worse. Politics will get worse. That's the cruel reality of Japan today." And that means Aso's support rating can only get worse. "It's too late for Aso to turn it around," Curtis says. "He'll lose a point a week and by early March he'll be down...
...election. "But who wants that job now when they know they're going to lose the next election?" Curtis says. "Either way, you have to assume the chances are very good that the LDP will get absolutely blasted in the next election and that the [opposition Democratic Party of Japan] will come to power," he says...
...Read a TIME cover story on Japan...
...late evening of Jan. 20, an elderly man bicycling in Itami, a town outside Osaka, Japan, collided with a motorcyclist. After receiving first aid from the rescue workers who arrived on the scene, the 69-year-old was refused by 14 hospitals, citing a lack of doctors or resources to handle his case, as he was driven around in an ambulance. Three hours later, after he was finally admitted to one facility, the man died of hemorrhagic shock...