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Neither the DPJ nor the LDP appears dependable in any of these areas.

Its seventeen months in power before the current catastrophe have been a saga of struggle with career officials in many parts of the bureaucracy, including the judiciary, fighting for the survival of the world they have always known.

But, after a short lived non LDP government, successive coalition governments until 2009 had the LDP at their core.

When the DPJ came to power in September 2009 it ended half a century of de facto one party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

In the election of 2005, the LDP retained power only because Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi positioned the LDP as an agent of change.

Having pledged to destroy the old LDP, Koizumi implemented exemplary reforms that took the spoils away from special interest groups, which merely accelerated the LDP s enfeeblement.

While in opposition, the DPJ bashed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for flipping through leader after leader.

The likely ongoing instability within the DPJ makes it all the more important that the LDP seriously reform itself.

Among the smaller parties, the centrist Liberal Party and Christian Peoples Party hold the balance of power.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which had ruled Japan for most of the post war decades, lost parliamentary elections to the Democratic Party of Japan.

Japan s one party state, under the conservative LDP, was a product of World War II and the Cold War.

For the last four years, the LDP had shown itself to be utterly unresponsive to the key issues of popular concern pensions, unemployment, and the fraying social safety net.

The key reason for the DPJ s victory was that voters were fed up with the LDP.

One of the DPJ s major campaign pledges was change, which, at its core, meant anything but the LDP. But should opposing the LDP really mean undoing 50 years of work on national security?

In the recent election campaign, the LDP continued to criticize the previous DPJ government s immaturity, but avoided attacks on other parties.

Last December, the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shinzo Abe, won back control of the government for the LDP after more than three years in opposition, securing the post of Prime Minister for the second time.

With Ozawa gone, not only does the DPJ now have an opportunity to renew itself, but so does the LDP.

The time is fast approaching when the public becomes entirely disillusioned with both the LDP and the DPJ, which comprise a two party system in name only, in which legislators shift allegiance for reasons centered on attachment to or enmity against the LDP.

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So Japan s choice comes down to one between a distrusted LDP and an incompetent DPJ.

Koizumi s approach was to defy the LDP s leaders by appealing over their heads directly to the electorate. He successfully portrayed himself as a rebel resisting the LDP s old guard, actually purging some of them, in defense of ordinary Japanese.

OSAKA Yesterday s landslide general election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one party dominated system that the catch all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.

Koizumi s approach was to defy the LDP s leaders by appealing over their heads directly to the electorate.

But the LDP worked hand in glove with Japan s deeply entrenched bureaucracy, of which the prosecutors are a part.

The DPJ was established in 1998 as a jambalaya party, consisting of people who had abandoned the LDP, including Hatoyama himself, and the former Socialist Party.

With Japanese voters becoming supportive of new parties after decades of LDP rule, Shinsei gained tremendous traction and drove forward the creation of the first non LDP coalition government since the mid 1950 s.

The public blames the LDP s inability to control the bureaucracy, if not its complicity with it.

So any new LDP led coalition government will be just as precarious as the last two pathetic administrations.

But, as the LDP retained the most seats in the upper house, it soon forged a coalition with its long time rivals, the Social Democrats, forcing Ozawa back into opposition.

Should the LDP win a simple majority, the new administration would still face a hung Diet, owing to the DPJ s control of the Upper House.

In anticipation of an LDP led government (with the New Komeito Party as a junior coalition partner), financial markets began to move toward a weaker yen.

Japan s change of government in 2009 when the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) broke the almost uninterrupted monopoly on power held by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1955 was not a revolution.

But, while Koizumi successfully knocked out the Tanaka faction within the LDP, many of Tanaka s adherents ,led by Ozawa, had re established themselves by colonizing and taking over the DPJ.

For the last three years, the ruling LDP Komei Party coalition has dominated the powerful Lower House with a two thirds majority.

That task has already begun, and the LDP s recent election victory will strengthen Abe s ability to complete it.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gave the LDP a last breath of life by promising to reform it in 2001.

And what of the LDP? Having fallen from power, it will lose its control of the redistribution of government funds.

After more than 50 years of almost uninterrupted power, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been buried in a general election.

The LDP state was based on the promise, given by Prime Minister Ikeda Hayato in 1960, that family incomes would soon be doubled.

For most of the last decade, the DPJ was not seen as a viable alternative to the LDP, although they appeared to form a pseudo two party system.

Japan s state prosecutor has, for example, accused Ichiro Ozawa, the General Secretary of the newly elected Democratic Party of Japan, of having received illegal funds to run the DPJ s recent campaign against the Liberal Democratic Party.

Moreover, the LDP was plagued by a string of minor scandals and consistent bungling. The LDP s need for three different prime ministers in the space of little more than a year made plain that the party s power nucleus had melted down.

With so little respect being shown for the LDP s leaders, it is no surprise that Japanese voters lost what little patience they had left for the party and its antiquated practices.

That three close aides to Ozawa have been indicted only months after the DPJ s victory strikes many Japanese as odd, given the well known corruption of the LDP when in power.