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30 Aug 2009 09:42

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World: Japan’s election points to the Democrats over the Liberal Democrats

  • We have been trying to outgrow this old one-party system ever since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It took two decades, but we finally made it.
  • Japanese political expert Takeshi Sasaki, a former University of Tokyo president • On the Democratic Party’s likely landslide victory in today’s elections. The conservative-leaning Liberal Democratic Party (no relation to the Democrats), which has only lost its ruling status once before, currently would need an American football-style Hail Mary to remain in power. • source