The world’s most patient democracy finally snapped. After nearly 50 years of single-party rule, Japanese voters handed the old guard leaders a landslide loss. Now, the new expected prime minister will be Hatoyama. Hatoyama is widely expected to form Japan’s next government and become prime minister after his Democratic Party of Japan routed the incumbent conservative and pro-Washington Liberal Democratic Party in historic parliamentary elections Sunday. Hatoyama party captured more than 300 seats of the 480 up for grabs. The Liberal Democrats have run Japan for most of the past 54 years. Despite those close personal ties, however, Hatoyama has been vocal in criticizing the U.S. over the global financial crisis and has urged closer ties to Asia, a stance that has led to speculation of possible friction with Washington.
When the election was ready, Hatoyama drew attention with an interview in The New York Times that was critical of the US economic policy. He said Japan was “continually buffeted by the winds of market fundamentalism in a US-led movement that is more usually called globalization” and traced the origins of the global economic crisis to “American-style free market economics.” These all symptoms’ are showing that in future there must be a big change between the Japan and the US Financial sector.


























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