http://www.economist.com/world/asia/...ry_id=12070500
The Economist has long been hoping that the reformist members of both the LDP and DPJ will break away from their parties to form some kind of progressive party to create an actual two party system in Japan. I can't imagine such a drastic thing like that happening, but things should get interesting after the next lower-house election (September 2009 at the latest). The LDP will lose its supermajority of over 2/3 and will no longer be able to ignore the DPJ controlled upper-house.