Darrel Whitten

Bureaucrats, Parochialism, and the Japan Discount

Actually, I think the best thing that could happen is for the LDP to lose big in the upcoming elections, meaning they would lose control of the Upper and Lower Houses. The Lower House is more important because that is where budget control originates. If the LDP loses this, Japan will have its first truly two-party system--which we believe would work to make both parties mroe respondent to the voting public and help to elimnate over 40 years of pork barrel politics in the LDP.