How Koizumi did in the LDP : the man who killed the ruling party was its star.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2009Subject(s): Online resources: In: Newsweek 24 & 31 August 2009, pp. 33-35.Summary: The Liberal Democratic Party which ruled the nation for five decades. If the LDP gets trounched at the polls on August 30 as everyone is predicting, the results will likely prove fatal. Japan's currently muddled politics where the big tent parties are often hard to distinguish on policy grounds. The LDP has also been struggling with one flaw Koizumi didn't change, its tadition of hereditary politics. All of Koizumi's successors Shizo Abe, Fukuda and Aso came from political dynasties.
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The Liberal Democratic Party which ruled the nation for five decades. If the LDP gets trounched at the polls on August 30 as everyone is predicting, the results will likely prove fatal. Japan's currently muddled politics where the big tent parties are often hard to distinguish on policy grounds. The LDP has also been struggling with one flaw Koizumi didn't change, its tadition of hereditary politics. All of Koizumi's successors Shizo Abe, Fukuda and Aso came from political dynasties.

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