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All items tagged Japan ElectionOpen Think Tank ArticlesJuly 20, 2010 | Japanese Society and Politics: Unraveling an Unsolvable PuzzleKevin Calonne: The recent resignation of the Japanese Prime Minister demonstrates how little hope there is for dissolving the iron triangle and its stranglehold on Japanese politics. The Democratic Party of Japan must urgently deal with the overwhelming bureaucracy, if its government is to succeed. ... MoreGlobal Must Read ArticlesSeptember 4, 2009 | Japan Finally at the CrossroadsJapan’s bureaucracy has been stagnant for some time based on the single party system, this will finally begin to change under Hatoyama. ++ The LDP failed to build on the progress made by PM Koizumi in 2005 and have instead imploded spectacularly. ++ The DPJ’s initial focus will be on how “to loosen the bureaucracy’s grip on the levers of government” but it has a lot of ... MoreAugust 31, 2009 | Hatoyama's Balancing ActYukio Hatoyama’s Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will pursue a more independent foreign policy and aim to break down the all powerful bureaucracy. ++ However, “Hatoyama began his political career in the LDP, and one of the dangers of the new situation is that the DPJ simply inherits the LDP’s patronage system of politics.” ++ The new leadership must maintain the continuities ... More |
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