主题：【原创】别了,麻生太郎君 -- 华恩

The LDP, in power almost without interruption since 1955, is a cold-war relic. Its days have been numbered since the collapse of the Berlin Wall coincided with the bursting of Japan’s bubble economy.

What good the party did in helping build one of the world’s mightiest and most egalitarian industrial nations is now almost ancient history. In recent years it has played a sordid game, lavishing favours on those—such as exporters, builders and farmers—whose votes and money have kept it in power. Its unseemly ties with the country’s famously conservative bureaucracy have prevented it from tackling Japan’s pressing social problems. In an ageing society where many pensioners are refreshingly sprightly, the ruling party looks utterly clapped-out.

A pity then that the party that looks likely to win the most seats in the lower house, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), looks so callow and ill-prepared to take over.