http://www.publicsquare.net/bbpress/tags/japan Common Ground, Uncommon Debate en-US Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:38:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.publicsquare.net/bbpress/search.php http://www.publicsquare.net/bbpress/topic/2009-japanese-elections#post-17 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:50:51 +0000 wilcoxchar 17@http://www.publicsquare.net/bbpress/ <p>The general elections in Japan resulted in the replacement of the Liberal Democratic Party, which had been in power in the Japanese parliament for almost 50 years, with the Democratic Party of Japan. With party leader Yukio Hatoyama expected to become Prime Minister this week, how will this change in party affect the politics of Japan? </p>