Regime change – Japanese style
Image via Wikipedia UPDATE 1: The phrase “regime change” has certain connotations for English speakers, linked as it now is with rationales given by Western leaders (particularly President Bush and then-Prime Mininster Tony Blair) for invading Iraq back in 2003. As used with reference to Hatoyama and the DPJ election campaign, it is a translation [...]
Japan throws out its conservative government after 50 years
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Here are some links I found today: From the Telegraph: Japanese election: Hatoyama’s agenda includes tax breaks and distance from the US Yukio Hatoyama wooed the Japanese electorate with an agenda for change, but the 62 year-old nicknamed the Alien is an unlikely revolutionary. Japan votes for a new [...]
