Guide to Japan
Saturday September 11th 2010

Posts Tagged ‘election’

Dumb & Dumber

Dumb & Dumber

Some of you will recall my earlier blog post about the DPJ defeating the LDP in the recent election.  In that post I said something to the effect of "we will have to wait and see if the DPJ ends up being any better than the LDP."  Well if the past few days are any indication that question is still very much up in the air.  On the one-hand, [...]

DPJ wins landslide victory, Crushes LDP, Taro Aso

DPJ wins landslide victory, Crushes LDP, Taro Aso

The Democratic Party of Japan wins the Lower House election by a landslide, ending more than half a century of almost uninterrupted rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. Can't say I'm not happy because I am.  Let's face it Taro Aso destroyed the LDP and perhaps Japan in the process.  I haven't heard such negative sentiment from Japanese [...]