Japan’s Finance Minister Noda to be new PM – Yahoo! News
So this was a vote against Ozawa and his preferred candidate. Great. Instead of a deep debate over how to jolt Japan out of decades of stagnation, the party vote had turned into a battle between allies and critics of Ichiro Ozawa, a 69-year-old political mastermind who heads the party’s biggest group even as he [...]
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 [...]
