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Article: Koizumi's move: change uncertain in Japan.(Junichiro Koizumi)
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- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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In a country often characterized by political apathy and government inertia, Japan's general election of 2005 was novel. For the first time in recent history, an incumbent prime minister ran and was re-elected on a platform that centered on a single, highly salient political issue. The election was effectively a referendum on privatizing Japan Post, Japan's vast state-run postal service. Koizumi portrayed passage as a key step in reforming-Japan's burdened economic structure and rejuvenating growth. Yet given the substantial opposition to the changes within the Japanese Diet, whether the victorious Koizumi can successfully implement this and other policies remains uncertain.
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