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The Koizumi Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2007

Ikuo Kabashima  and
Gill Steel
Ikuo Kabashima
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
Gill Steel
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
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On September 11, 2005, Koizumi Junichiro and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) achieved a stunning victory in the 44th House of Representatives election. In stark contrast with the previous election, just two years earlier, in which the LDP had only managed 237 seats, the LDP captured an impressive 296 seats. This meant that together with their coalition partner, the Komeito, the LDP now controlled two thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives (the more powerful of the two houses that comprise Japan's Diet, or parliament).

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 79 - 84
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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