Japan election campaign begins

"The day has come to change the history of Japan," Yukio Hatoyama, who is a leader of Democratic Party, said on a campaign tour in Osaka. I think the Democratic Party will surely defeat the Liberal Democratic Party by a great margin in this general election. These days the mass media has reported day after day that a change of power will be happened for the first time in fifteen years. Since 1955, the LDP has been in power for more than 50 years, except a short break in 1993 through 1994, and 22 prime ministers from that party have been in position. Comparing with the UK or the United States, I think it is almost abnormal as a democratic government. So all voters in Japan should contemplate and poll for a party which you think can change Japan. I myself think that the DP can, although there are a few anxious elements in their manifesto such as a vagueness of the explanation of how to pay for the plans of social security. Anyway, the change of power will be happened soon. It is ironic that Mr.Hatoyama, whose grandfather was a prime minister and established the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955, is about to defeat it.

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