Professor Ellis Krauss provides commentary on Japan's new leader
"Japanese voters reject longtime ruling party"
09/09/2009
John M. Glionna and Yuriko Nagano,
LA Times
Reporting from Tokyo and Seoul - Japanese voters on Sunday handed a humiliating defeat to the Liberal Democratic Party after its half-century of nearly unbroken rule, opting for an untested opposition party that pledged to revive the nation's ailing economy.
Signaling frustration over a declining quality of life, a record-high unemployment rate, unraveling social services and political scandals, voters rebuked Prime Minister Taro Aso and a party that had dominated national politics here since the Eisenhower administration.
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