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Japan's Political Upheaval and Massive Public Dissent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Karel van Wolferen
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On the surface the story is simple enough. Japan's most powerful and controversial politician has done it again: shaking up the party political world by leaving, and perhaps breaking up, the DPJ, Japan's ruling party. And that because things did not go his way. The Japanese media were, predictably, ready with their favorite epithet, ‘the destroyer’, and with quotes from political commentators that this time his star may be truly fading because the perennial polls show that the people have had it with him.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 28 , July 2012 , e2
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