I know you guys might find politics boring, but I just arrived in Tokyo, and this is a pretty big deal here. So just FYI, the Democratic Party of Japa
n (DPJ) won by a landslide yesterday, ousting the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) 54-year reign.?DPJ leans slightly more towards the liberal end, and LDP is more conservative.
From my own observation, it seems that Japanese people tend to keep mum about their unhappiness and shrug off their discontent. Maybe people were really fed up with the way LDP ran things. NHK said 70 percent of eligible voters came out to cast their ballot, the most in two decades. It’s not clear if the public is really gungho about DPJ or if they are just sick of the old government. I guess Japanese people are looking for a change.
Emily
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I’ll be curious to see if the DPJ is all talk or if they are actually going to implement different policies from the LDP! The word “change” seems to be used so easily nowadays.