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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
But then, as a Brit told me, the British are not unfamiliar with the idea of a female leader even before Thatcher; they were once ruled by a Queen, after all.
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Last I heard, the Brits are still ruled by a Queen, albeit mostly in name.
If "Rozen Aso" wasn't that much of a ultra hawk, I'd probably be backing him by now to last at least half as long as Koizumi.
Anyway, what of the major opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan? It's taken nearly 50 years since the War for there to be a credible opposition to the LDP (controlling the upper house and such) and still not much is known about them outside Japan. All I know is that the DPJ in its current incarnation formed around 1998 after various amalgamations over the decades, while its leader Ozawa Ichirou used to be a senior LDP MP. The current English wikipedia article doesn't reveal much either.