>In any case, it has always been difficult to get a more realistic
>view of Japan into the US media.
Check out the Japan Policy Research Institute <http://www.jpri.org/>.
>I will get excited about Japanese politics when the LDP actually
>gets voted out and gets a stake driven into its heart so it won't
>come back, but I'm not holding my breath.
What is nominally divided into two parties in the US (the Republican and Democratic Parties), the UK (the Conservative and Labour Parties), and Israel (the Likud and Labor Parties), etc. is bundled into one party in Japan: the Liberal Democratic Party. If anything, the LDP has been much less neoliberal than the Democratic Party in the USA, Labour in the UK, the Socialist Party in Spain, the African National Congress in South Africa, the SDP and the Greens in Germany, etc. -- Yoshie
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