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	Politics of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japan was occupied by the Allies from the end of World War II in 1945 until 1952.
		The Imperial Household of Japan is headed by the Emperor of Japan.
		The election was scheduled for September 11, 2005, and was won in a landslide by Junichiro Koizumi's LDP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Japan (3009 words)

	2003 Japan Elections
		Japan's 2003 general elections, which were held on November 9, provided a mixed bag of results.
		The Japan Communist Party fell from 20 to 9 seats, and the once-major Social Democratic Party fell from 18 to just 6 seats, meaning the near demise of a party that at one time many years ago won 166 seats.
		Of all the statistics coming from this election, one more than any other illustrates the poor state of Japanese politics: a nearly unbelievable 37.8% of LDP candidates were "hereditary" candidates, meaning that they had an immediate family member who is also a Diet member.
	www.zmag.org /japanwatch/0304-election.html (969 words)

	Japanese Lower House elections
		Japan is in a confidence crisis and at the same time lacks a credible alternative.
		Before the election, he said on a campaign tour in the Niigata Prefecture, that it would be better for undecided voters (estimated to account for 40% of the total electorate) to stay home and sleep on June 25, the day of the general election.
		But the results of the parliamentary elections showed that for New Komeito, the cooperation with the LDP primarily benefited the Liberal Democrats whereas the smaller New Komeito, which is supported by Soka Gakkai, the nation's largest lay-Buddhist group, lost nine of its forty-two seats from the 1996-election.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo8/japanelection.htm (1062 words)

	Free Elections (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Elections do not become free through rhetoric, even when the rhetoric is uttered by leaders of respectable nations and by media and academia stars.
		Elections held by a non-free society are inherently non-free, even if prestigious evening news anchormen and press conferences in Jerusalem, London, the UN and Washington, DC refer to them as “free elections”.
		A cardinal prerequisite to Free Election, to moderate regimes and to durable and peaceful coexistence is the uprooting of the regime, which has been responsible for the deterioration of the Palestinian society.
	www.acpr.org.il.cob-web.org:8888 /cloakrm/opeds/041227.html (602 words)

	Japan general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japan held a nationwide election to the House of Representatives, the more powerful lower house of the National Diet, on 11 September 2005, about two years before the end of the term taken from the last election in 2003.
		Election analysts, however, warned that only few LDP candidates were enjoying comfortable leads, and there was still a large number of undecided voters who went for the DPJ in the last election, thus the election results were far from being set.
		Election results gave the governing coalition 327 seats, more than a two-thirds majority in the lower house [11] In general, the LDP roughly held its own in rural areas, retaking about half the seats held by rebels, but holding steady or even falling slightly against other parties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_general_election,_2005 (2173 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		Given the undeniable arithmetic of Japan's ballooning debt and rising social security burden, it is not surprising that the LDP, New Komeito and DPJ manifestoes regarding postal liberalization, fiscal balance and pensions are all essentially the same.
		Article 9 of Japan's pacifist constitution reads: "Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
		They want Japan to assume a more assertive role on the world stage and to change its low profile in international politics by amending the pacifist restrictions contained in Japan's present constitution, as they view the current constitution as anachronistic, unrealistic and irresponsible in a new, more turbulent world.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GH23Dh03.html (1119 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Moreover, Japanese politics and elections lack the kind of spectacle, political enthusiasm and festivities that one witnesses, for example, in the United States during presidential elections or in countries such as India, where almost everyone becomes immersed in politicking at general elections.
		Elections are about change and alternation in government bringing fresh ideas, new initiatives and political enthusiasm.
		Before this election campaign, the opposition remained largely fragmented and the LDP and its allies felt little challenge from those on the opposite side of parliament.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/EK07Dh02.html (1150 words)

	TheStreet.com: Markets Await German Elections, Japan Data
		Germany holds three state elections, two on Sept. 5 and one on Sept. 12, and the polls warn that the ruling Social Democrats are in for a drubbing.
		Japan releases second-quarter GDP on Thursday, and most observers suspect the economy stagnated or contracted slightly after eye-popping first-quarter annualized growth of 8.1%.
		Of the three state elections, two (Bradenburg and Thuringia) are in former East Germany.
	www.thestreet.com /comment/currency/780265.html (944 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		Japan's first political party, the Aikoku Koto was established by Taisuke Itagaki in 1874.
		The party presented a petition to the emperor requesting the implementation of a parliamentary form of government with free elections however it did not come to fruition.
		The Democratic Party of Japan or Minshuto was formed in 1996 by 57 dissenting members from Japan's leading political parties.
	www.japancorner.com /political_parties.asp (421 words)

	Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
		The municipal elections on 26 October were the first to be held since the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government were established.
		Japan welcomes the fact that, in general, the elections were conducted in a free and fair manner, with the participation of all ethnic groups.
		Unlike the elections in 2000, there was no Kosovo-wide boycott, although the low turnout among Serbs and the boycott in Mitrovica were disappointing.
	www.un.int /japan/statements/motomura021106.html (528 words)

	FairVote - Japanese Parliamentary Elections 2005
		Below, we have analyzed the results of the election by calculating how skewed each party’s representation is in the single member seats and the proportionally allocated seats, when compared to their share of the national popular vote.
		In fact, the over-representation of the LDP through the single member district seats was so severe that even with the inclusion of the proportional seats, the LDP still holds 61% of the total parliamentary seats – almost 23% more seats than their share of the vote would warrant.
		It is through the winner-take-all single member system that Japan now has a political party with the support of less than half of voters holding more than half of the parliamentary seats.
	www.fairvote.org /?page=1596 (1154 words)

	Japan-Elections, 3rd Writethru Bgt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Japan also is one of the United States' negotiating partners in the effort to disarm North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
		Victory was sweet for the popular leader, who called the election after defections within his party scuttled a legislative package he had championed for breaking up and privatizing Japan Post.
		The elections were sure to have deep repercussions on Japan's political landscape and speed the pace of government reforms.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050911/w091128.html (807 words)

	July 1998 Upper House Elections in Japan
		In both Okinawa and Aomori, LDP candidates lost, in an election seen as a preview of the hotly-contested governor's races to be held in November in Okinawa and February in Aomori.
		However, Takashi Imai, chairman of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), stressed the LDP's defeat in the Upper House election does not mean there will be a power shift in the government, and he urged the LDP to steadily implement financial stabilization measures proposed during the previous Diet session.
		It's also worth noting that Japan's voters have used upper house elections to register protests, and then turned around to favor the stability and familiarity of the LDP in balloting for the lower house, the more influential body and the one that elects the prime minister.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/web/ldpelect.htm (5706 words)

	AFP-031600-Japan
		Last May, Japan passed a law enshrining guidelines on stronger defence cooperation with the United States to give logistical support to US forces in regional crises that directly threaten Japan's security.
		"And the guidelines as a deterrent are protecting elections in Taiwan where voters may show their true intentions with the belief that the United States, and probably Japan, will protect them if something happens," he said.
		"I understand that Japan and the United States are in complete agreement on maintaining the status quo." Keizo Takemi, a Japanese senator and former vice foreign minister, pointed to Taiwan's proximity to Japan's Okinawan island chain, where the United States maintains a huge military presence.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /AFP/AFP-031600-Japan.htm (506 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Japan’s alliance with the United States is its route to an assertive foreign policy--it reassures both the Japanese public and the region that Japan is not again returning to its old, bad ways.
		One senior Japan Defense Agency official summarized this problem succinctly when he described the primary lesson of Iraq: “It isn’t worth it.”[5] The danger is that this official’s response will catch on when the Japanese consider the political costs of Japan’s GSDF operations in Iraq in light of their limited effectiveness.
		While Koizumi and Japan are embracing a liberal nationalism that should be familiar to America and its chief allies, the leader’s annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo--where the souls of Japan’s imperial war dead, including those of Class A war criminals, are enshrined--undermine this cause.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.23464/pub_detail.asp (3538 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Japan's June 25 elections mark a critical time for the course of the nation in the 21st century.
		This is the first election since October 1996 for the 480 seats in the Lower House of the Diet, or parliament.
		The main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, currently holds 95 seats, and though it is possible for them to create an alliance with other opposition forces such as the communist or socialist parties, they have not been able to identify with another party thus far.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=23495 (751 words)

	Elections in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections are supervised by election committees at each administrative level under the general direction of the Central Election Administration Committee.
		For many years Japan was a one party dominant state, but in 1993 the dominant Liberal Democratic Party was defeated by a coalition government.
		The greatest success of the 1993 reform government under Hosokawa Morihiro was a change in the system whereby 200 members (reduced to 180 beginning with the 2000 election) are elected by proportional representation in multi-member districts or "blocs" while 300 are elected from single-candidate districts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Japan (761 words)

	3RD LD: Women, independents advance in local elections Japan Policy & Politics - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For six Tokyo ward mayoral elections and nine Tokyo ward assembly elections, vote counting began Monday morning, with the winners declared in all the ward mayoral elections by noon and all the ward assembly polls by the evening.
		The elections, which were the second half of quadrennial unified local elections, are viewed as a test for the major parties ahead of the next general election.
		The quadrennial local elections, as well as four by-elections for the Diet on Sunday, were seen as a prelude to the next general election for the House of Representatives, which must be held sometime between now and June next year, when the term for the current lower house members expires.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2003_May_6/ai_101279852 (701 words)

	JAPAN: parliamentary elections Shugiin, 2003
		Elections were held for all the seats in the House of Representatives following premature dissolution of this body on 10 October 2003.
		Mr Koizumi was required to call elections by June 2004, but had been generally expected to move up the date after he had scored an overwhelming win in the leadership race within his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in September 2003.
		The opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) stated that the elections should be a test of whether the country could develop a true two-party system (the LDP has governed Japan almost without interruption for nearly 50 years).
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2161_03.htm (635 words)

	CNN.com - Japan eyes elections, Koizumi demurs - May 1, 2001
		TOKYO, Japan -- Evidence that most Japan's voters want an election this year is being seen as a fresh sign that reformist Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi might consider a snap poll.
		Lower House elections were held in June last year, and no election need be held until the summer of 2004, but the prime minister has the right to dissolve the chamber at any time.
		Koizumi, 59, swept to power last week to become head of the LDP, and hence the nation, after his calls for reform of the ailing economy and a change in the party that has ruled for nearly half a century resonated with rank-and-file LDP members.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/01/japan.koizumi.poll (642 words)

	Japan's Elections John Manning in Spectrezine
		The Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan staged a "contest for political power" within the same policy framework and by sharing the same positions on two major issues that have an important bearing on the basic direction of national politics: a consumption tax increase and constitutional revision.
		This redrawing of the political map was suddenly produced during the run-up to the dissolution of the House of Representatives.
		In paving the way for Japan's future in the 21st century in response to the wishes of the people, the JCP has an even greater role to play.
	www.spectrezine.org /resist/Manning3.htm (936 words)

	japan elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The results in both these elections represent for the JCP a record-breaking achievement and a major advance in its drive for political change in the 21st century.
		After these elections, the JCP now has 185 members in a total 47 prefectural assemblies, very close to 194 members of the Komei Party and 187 of the Democratic Party of Japan.
		The second half of the simultaneous local elections are scheduled to be held on April 18, and the JCP has expressed determination to make further advances in that round -- in order to make the latest local elections the first step towards bringing about drastic changes in local politics.
	www.ganashakti.com /old/1999/990419/world1.htm (561 words)

	Japan
		Japan has considerable resources on the web, but much of it is in Japanese.
		Japan Export Import Bank, a branch of the Japanese goverment now in charge of lending money to developing Asian nations.
		Japan's oldest and most prestigeous English language newspaper, it is often seen as the voice of the LDP to the outside world.
	www.iup.edu /politicalscience/COURSES/ps280/H-japan1.htm (492 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Japanese leader gets big boost as ruling party heads for victory in ...
		Koizumi's party appeared headed for a stunning landslide victory in elections for Japan's lower house of Parliament.
		With voter attention riveted on his battle against the LDP defectors – he virtually booted all 37 out of the party, and then sent out celebrity candidates to oppose them – the main opposition party found itself on the sidelines and was projected to suffer huge losses.
		One area that probably will not change is Japan's strained relationship with some of its neighbors, which have been angered by Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo war shrine that critics say glorifies Japan's militaristic past.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050911-1119-japan-elections.html (1020 words)

	The Japan Observer: Japan's Alternative
		Japan Watch is a Znet site published by the Japan Observer, a collective based in Japan.
		For other Znet-based information on Japan and Asia, see Asia Watch, a more general site, or Japan Focus, which has translated as well as original articles.
		The three-year reign of Japan's rightwing populist Prime Minister was dealt a heavy blow as Japanese voters expressed clear non-confidence in him and his party in the House of Councilors (Upper House) elections on July 11, 2004.
	www.zmag.org /japanwatch (357 words)

	USATODAY.com - Japanese ruling coalition holds majority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		TOKYO (AP) — Japan's upper house elections shone a spotlight on the eroding support base claimed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the growing hopes for its aspiring rival, the Democrats.
		Koizumi and the LDP, which has governed Japan almost continuously since 1955, are not in immediate danger.
		That system came under strain, though, after Japan's real estate and stock market bubble burst in the early 1990s, plunging the country into a decade of stagnation and crippling government finances.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-07-12-japan-elections_x.htm (853 words)

	Japan-Elections, 1st Writethru Bgt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Turnout was expected to be high, fuelled in part by a dramatic campaign that broke new ground with the emergence of media-driven image politics and a sharper focus on policy.
		Aside from pushing pension reform, the Democrats oppose the Japan's dispatch of troops to Iraq and criticize Koizumi's controversial visits to a Tokyo war shrine, which enrage neighbouring Asian countries that say the site glorifies Japan's militaristic past.
		Koizumi dissolved the lower house and called Sunday's snap elections when his pet project to split up and sell Japan Post's mail, insurance and savings services was torpedoed by the upper house of parliament on Aug. 8.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050910/w091068.html (580 words)

	USATODAY.com - Koizumi backers look poised to win in Japan elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Advocates for change in Japan could emerge rejuvenated from Sunday's legislative elections, thanks to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's decision last month to wage war on obstructionist lawmakers in his own ruling party.
		In Japan, the post office does more than deliver mail; it also acts like a government bank, collecting trillions in deposits and doling them out as loans, often to corporate borrowers with close links to LDP lawmakers.
		The DPJ says reform of Japan's pension system, creaking under the burden of a rapidly aging population and falling birthrate, should top the policy agenda along with cutting wasteful public works and slashing civil servant personnel costs.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-08-japan-koizumi_x.htm (767 words)

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