TY - BOOK AU - CARYL Christian TI - Lighting a fuse PY - 2005/// KW - JAPAN KW - POLITICS N2 - Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is playing for high stakes in the elections scheduled for 11th September 2005. He wants to shake up his own party and is using the privatization of Japan Post as the means of achieving it. The article considers his chances of success ER -