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Yukio Hatoyama knows that change in Japan doesn't come easily. On Wednesday, Sept. 15, he became the country's 60th Prime Minister and only the fourth since 1955 from a party other than the long-ensconced Liberal Democrats (LDP). At his first presser since officially assuming the post, he asked the Japanese people for patience. "Through trial and error, we may make mistakes," he said. "But I would like the Japanese people to be gentle with us." He continued, "This is an encounter with the unknown, and we're embarking on a trip that we've never experienced...
...victory that Hatoyama called "the first ever proper change in government in the history of our constitutional politics." Indeed, by electing DPJ members to 308 of 480 seats in the Japanese parliament's lower house, voters ended a half-century of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - providing an unprecedented rebuke to the country's political élite, at the same time issuing a mandate for lawmakers with fresh ideas to address Japan's protracted economic malaise and growing societal ills. (Read "Will an Opposition Victory Rescue Japan's Economy...
Modern Japan is not known for embracing radical change. But in elections to the lower house of Japan's parliament on Aug. 30, voters swept out of power the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had ruled Japan for all but 11 months of the past half-century. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won 308 of the 480 Diet seats at stake...
...Yukio Hatoyama, who will be voted in as Prime Minister later this month, said the election represented "the first-ever proper change in government in the history of our constitutional politics." He leads a party cobbled together from groups united in not much more than their opposition to the LDP; it has no obvious coherent ideology of its own. Though there are a number of old heads in the party--its éminence grise, former LDP minister Ichiro Ozawa, has been a player in Japanese politics for 30 years--no fewer than 46% of its Diet members will be first...
...comes to an exercise of power by the U.S. alone," Ozawa said, "then Japan is not able to go along." Within a U.N framework of dispute resolution, however, "Japan should be proactive in rendering support." Ozawa said that this position was "starkly different" from that taken by the LDP. He really could not have been clearer that a DPJ government would mean a new line on foreign policy...