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	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		For example, Japan's fertility rate in 2003 fell to a record low of 1.29 children per woman, according to government statistics released on June 10.
		So close to the election, Japanese voters, especially the non-affiliates, are not rallying behind the Koizumi administration as they did in the last Upper House election three years ago - just three months after Koizumi took the office at the pinnacle of his popularity.
		For sure, this Upper House election will be a confidence vote by the Japanese public not only over what the Koizumi administration has done in terms of his imperfectly implemented reform agenda since he took office in April 2001, but also over his political mode of humanitarianism.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FG09Dh02.html (2357 words)

	Center for Voting and Democracy
		In the 2001 Upper House election, however, one vote in rural districts carried much greater weight than it did in urban districts; in an extreme case, one ballot in Tottori Prefecture was worth 5.06 ballots in Tokyo.
		The Supreme Court also approved Upper House seat arrangements twice in the past, in 1983 and 1996, citing some of the characteristics of the Upper House election system.
		Voting in Upper House districts, it says, is meant to reflect collectively the views of residents in the prefectures -- traditional regions that represent the broadest geographical unit of administration - in national politics; rezoning some of these districts could compromise this aim.
	www.fairvote.org /pr/global/japanpositivism.htm (717 words)

	The 2000 General Elections
		Japan will have to wait for the next general elections, which could take place as late as 2004, to see if the electorate is ready to vote in a new government.
		One of the major disappointments of the June 25 election was the fate of the Japanese Communist Party.
		In many places throughout Japan (perhaps nowhere more than in Komae, where an incumbent JCP mayor was facing reelection), mysterious pamphlets were distributed to people's homes, warning about the dangers of the communists coming to power.
	www.zmag.org /Japanwatch/0008-election.html (1415 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		Since the Lower House narrowly passed the plans on July 5, Koizumi had been fighting an increasingly uphill struggle to gain the support of LDP members in the Upper House.
		Japan Post is a giant with about US$3 trillion in assets, including the world's biggest deposit-taking institution, and has nearly 25,000 offices and 260,000 employees.
		The Democratic Party of Japan displayed its growing electoral appeal by winning more seats than the LDP in the July 2004 Upper House election, even though the LDP retained its majority in the chamber with the help of its coalition partner, New Komeito, which won 10 seats.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GH09Dh01.html (1658 words)

	Japan Rethinks Strategy for Gaining Permanent UN Security Council Seat - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Japan and many other U.N. member countries insist that the number of both permanent and nonpermanent members should be increased to a total of 24.
		Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi told the Upper House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense in late April that she plans to continue Japan's efforts to seek a permanent council seat.
		Japan's loss to the U.S. of its status as the world's largest single aid donor, in 2001, also dealt a significant setback to its international diplomatic clout.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/reform/cluster1/2002/0520japan.htm (1324 words)

	Koizumi's policies come under test in elections -DAWN - International; 26 June, 2004
		Candidates in Japan's election for parliament's upper house started their campaigns on Thursday for the polls on July 11.
		The July 11 upper house elections are seen as a referendum on Mr Koizumi's three-year record in office.
		Japan's population of 127 million will start declining two years from now, with the retired forecast to grow 40 per cent to 34 million by 2018, the government estimates.
	www.dawn.com /2004/06/26/int12.htm (1024 words)

	CNN.com - Voters head for the polls in Japan - July 28, 2001
		Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes his personal popularity will help his party in the upcoming election.
		The coalition needs 63 seats to keep its majority in the upper house, where half of the seats are contested every three years.
		Under a reform program, the upper house is being cut from 252 seats to 247.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/07/28/japan.elections (821 words)

	Japan's pension scandal deals blow to two-party system \| csmonitor.com
		TOKYO - Just when Japan's politicians appeared to be finally gaining some credibility with the public, the nation's rickety pension system sneaked up and pulled the rug from under their feet.
		In a lower house election last November, the Democrats scored big gains against the government - the election was hailed as the coming of age of a true two-party system for Japan, and many hoped it signaled the beginning of the end of a 50-year domination of Japanese politics by the LDP.
		Koizumi is concerned, he has vanquished his foe before the upper house elections and stabilized the government's position as a result," says Shinichi Ichikawa, a strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston in Tokyo.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0512/p07s02-woap.htm (839 words)

	Japanese upper house election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections to the House of Councillors, the upper house of the legislature of Japan, were held on July 11, 2004.
		The House of Councillors consists of 247 members who serve six-year terms.
		In the elections, the oppositional Democrat Party won a majority of the seats contested in the election, sweeping the liberal urban areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_upper_house_election,_2004 (263 words)

	Opposition leads in Japan upper house vote - Jul. 12, 2004
		TOKYO- Japan's ruling party appeared dealt a heavy setback as it trailed the country's opposition in early exit polls from Sunday's upper house elections that are seen as a test of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's unpopular pension reforms and his decision to keep troops in Iraq.
		Exit polls have the LDP losing two to four of it 116 upper house seats, but maintaining its majority on the strength of those won by its coalition partner New Komeito.
		The fiercely fought election campaign was underlined by a sharp slide in public support for Koizumi's cabinet from near 90 percent when he took power in April 2001 to a record low of 36 percent last week.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/jul/12/wnw_3-1.htm (506 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.
		Urban districts in the House of Representatives were increased by five in 1964, bringing nineteen new representatives to the lower house; in 1975 six more urban districts were established, with a total of twenty new representatives allocated to them and to other urban districts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Japan (774 words)

	Ruling coalition suffers backlash in Japan's upper house election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The results of Japan’s upper house election on July 11 revealed a continuing political backlash against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s economic and foreign policy agenda, in particular his decision to send Japanese troops to bolster the US occupation of Iraq.
		The voter turnout of 56.57 percent, marginally higher than in the July 2001 upper house election, was one of the lowest ever.
		Some political commentators have greeted the upper house election result as further evidence that a “two-party system” is emerging in Japan that will end the LDP’s monopoly of power.
	www.wsws.org /articles/testdir/jul2004/japa-j28_prn.shtml (1135 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Japanese Election Seen as Judgment of Premier
		Leading analysts said Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- the conservative political force that has ruled Japan for most of the post-World War II era -- will be hard pressed to make gains or even hold on to its 50 seats up for election in the upper house of the parliament, the Diet.
		The results, analysts said, are likely to cement the Democratic Party of Japan's emergence as a powerful counterweight to the Liberal Democrats, marking an evolution here to a two-party system very similar to that of the United States.
		Though Japan's prime minister is typically chosen in lower-house elections, analysts said a crushing defeat for the Liberal Democrats could jeopardize Koizumi's job.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A39837-2004Jul9?language=printer (660 words)

	CNN.com - Poll result boosts Japanese stocks - Jul 11, 2004
		The coalition won a majority in the upper house elections, though gains by the opposition signaled discontent with Koizumi's cuts in pension benefits and deployment of troops to Iraq.
		Before the vote, the Liberal Democrats held 115 seats in the upper house and controlled a majority of seats together with partner Komeito's 23 seats.
		The election also bolstered the emergence of a two-party political system in Japan, with the LDP increasingly balanced by the Democrats rather than easily dominating an opposition splintered into smaller groupings.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/11/japan.stocks/index.html (733 words)

	USATODAY.com - Japanese ruling coalition holds majority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		The ruling coalition held on to its majority in the upper house after Sunday's poll and maintains a majority where it counts most — in the lower house, which is the more powerful of Japan's two-chamber Parliament.
		Kawato said the Democrats could emerge as the biggest single party after the next lower house elections, which must be held within about three years.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-07-12-japan-elections_x.htm (834 words)

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		Elections were held for one-half of the seats in the House of Councillors on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could lose several seats in the upper house as his coalition was under criticism for its changes to the pension systems and for deploying Japanese troops to Iraq.
		Nevertheless, the election would not affect control of Parliament because the ruling coalition had a majority in the lower house.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2162_E.htm (413 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Koizumi's War
		In Japan's parliamentary elections, the Prime Minister is out to devastate his foes, transform his party and challenge the status quo.
		But LDP resistance within the upper house stiffened, and on Aug. 8 that body voted the bills down by an unexpectedly large margin.
		He dissolved the lower house (in Japan, the Prime Minister does not have the power to dismiss the upper house) and called for a nationwide election.
	www.time.com /time/asia/2005/koizumi/story.html (774 words)

	Interviews (Richard Jerram)
		In August 2004, Macquarie took over ING Securities’ Asian equity business, including the division that he had been working for since 1996.
		It was an examination of regional trading blocs, trying to quantify the impact on trade and investment behavior, and on corporate activity, including a critique of the generally accepted measures that are used.
		Yet, the Koizumi Cabinet and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the so-called avatars of reform, suffered a terrible blow at the hands of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the House of Councilors (Upper House) election in July 2004.
	www.japanreview.net /interview_jerram.htm (2669 words)

	CNN.com - World News: Election Watch
		Assembly: Japan has a bicameral Diet (Kokkai) which consists of the House of Councilors (Sangi-in) with 247 seats and the House of Representatives (Shugi-in) with 480 seats.
		In this election, 73 are by simple majority vote in the local constituencies and the remaining 48 are elected via proportional representation from a nationwide constituency.
		In the House of Representatives, 300 members are elected by simple majority vote in single-member constituencies and the remaining 180 are elected by a party-list proportional from 11 regional constituencies.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/asiapcf/japan5.html (228 words)

	Nippon Goro Goro
		Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party is trailing the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan ahead of July 11 upper house elections, according to an opinion poll.
		Japan's industrial output figures disappoint the market, but economists remain optimistic that a recovery is still on track.
		Japan's king of loan sharks to be sued for damages.
	radio.weblogs.com /0128043/2004/week26.html (670 words)

	Nippon Goro Goro
		Japanese woman reunited with her American husband and North Korean daughters in Jakarta in an anticipated event broadcast live on most networks in Japan.
		Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi of Japan downed a world-record 53 and a half hot dogs in 12 minutes, blowing away his rivals for the fourth year in a row.
		A new version of the legendary German airship begins a voyage to Japan marking the anniversary of the first flight in 1900.
	radio.weblogs.com /0128043/2004/week27.html (673 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Unfinished Business
		But here in the city's Shibuya neighborhood, as Koizumi and other party members begin campaigning for the July 11 Upper House election, Imatomi is a lot more cynical than she was three years ago when Koizumi first took office.
		The polling, they opined, would be just another formality as Koizumi, alone atop the Japanese political landscape, would lead his LDP to a runaway victory and begin his final two years in office with a clear mandate to pursue his most important initiatives and secure his place in history.
		The election that was supposed to be a Koizumi walkover has thus become a hotly contested battle, one that has breathed signs of life into the DPJ, which most commentators had declared all but dead.
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501040712/story.html (1008 words)

	Anti Corruption Day - Activities
		The Chapter selected on the cases on specific criteria such as the degree to which they had impact on Japanese society in general, the scale of corruption, and the particular patterns of the cases.
		The Japanese LDP was alleged to have embezzled political campaign funds from the Japan Dentists Federation, the lobby for the Japan Dental Association.
		It is alleged that the Chairman sought a slush fund to assure his re-election as chairman and needed a Diet member to act as a fake donee.
	www.transparency.org /un_day/japan_activities.html (1832 words)

	LDP poised for upper house election as Diet heads for summer break Japan Policy & Politics - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party geared up for next year's House of Councillors election Wednesday, with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi warning his party must win support from unaffiliated voters.
		''The LDP will be unable to secure a majority in the upper house if we do not field candidates who can win support from both organizations that support us and independent voters,'' Koizumi, who is also LDP president, said at a gathering of secretaries general from local chapters.
		The DPJ, Japan's largest opposition party, increased the number of its upper house seats at the LDP's expense in the previous election in July 2004, winning 50 seats versus the LDP's 49.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2006_June_19/ai_n16486828 (564 words)

	Amazon.com: Election: DVD: Matthew Broderick,Reese Witherspoon,Chris Klein,Jessica Campbell,Phil Reeves,Molly ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although the central event of "Election" may be a high-school election, it might as well be a presidential race.
		The election is far from the only thing on Jim's mind as he becomes too close to Dave's ex-wife Linda (Delaney Driscoll) and begins an affair that may cost him his marriage.
		Election, set in the 1990's at a school outside Omaha, tells the story of a frightening human dynamo, a senior who wishes to cap off her near-perfect career in high school by being elected to the student counsel presidency.
	www.amazon.com /Election-Matthew-Broderick/dp/B00001MXXJ (2949 words)

	Lijphart Elections Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Lijphart Elections Archive is a static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003.
		This was the origin of the Elections Archive in the University Library of the University of California, San Diego.
		The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.
	dodgson.ucsd.edu /lij (208 words)

	George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House - Election Fraud
		Unofficial Audit of NC Election: Comprehensive Case for Fraud - With essentially the same vote demographics in the absentee and the poll, there was a sudden shift of 6.4% of the vote toward the Republican.
		Recounts and retractions Posted Nov 12, 2004 - The media was kept two floors away from the vote counting at the Warren County Administration on election night on the basis of a “10” FBI terror threat that the FBI says was never issued.
		The 2004 election rests in the private hands of the Urosevich brothers, who are financed by the far-out right wing and top donors to the Republican Party.
	www.nogw.com /electionfraud.html (10886 words)

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