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What Next for Japan's Democratic Party?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yamaguchi Jiro
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The general elections in September 2005 swept away a number of the premises of postwar politics, and Japanese politics may indeed be said to have entered a new stage. The biggest change of all, in my opinion, was the denial of the redistribution function within the LDP government.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , e19
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[1] Translator's note. Yamaguchi is punning here with the expression “kaikaku no honmaru” (essence of reform). Prime Minister Koizumi has used this very expression to describe privatization of the postal system.