The day the blogging stopped

18.08.2009

If you believe the opinion polls, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is on the verge of a historic defeat. After more than 50 years of rule, broken only once for a few months, Japanese voters look set to reject the party and hand control of the powerful lower house to the opposition Democratic Party of Japan. The DPJ already controls the upper house and plans some swift changes should it win at the polls.

Among those is likely to be the election law.