What to expect from Japan's Oct 27 election

What to expect, nothing will be change in Japan. That's for sure.

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What to expect: election cars with white gloved politicians blaring out their name and disturbing the peace. at all hours of the day and night.

What to expect is the incumbent party will win along with their partners. The leader will become unpopular again, before the next election, resign, choose a new leader and we’ll … rinse and repeat. Japanese politics isn’t really about a party, it’s all about the factions. The opposition aren’t really parties either, they’re just small little factions who want to be a leader of THEIR faction. But we can call them parties to make it sound good. They’ve run Japan since the 1950s apart from 2 times. Makes you wonder, how good a democracy is, if the opposition factions can’t get their act together. When so many leaders have been soooo unpopular. I call it the “shoganai Syndrome!”

The article neglects to mention we are to expect incessant noise from campaign trucks and megaphones throughout our adopted home of Tokyo. It's worse than open mic night at local live houses. The LDP should make elimination of campaign noise part of their platform. Currently, every party is guilty of noise pollution.

What to expect from Japan's Oct 27 election

Nothing

What's to expect?

LDP win followed by lots of empty bloviation about changing stuff.

The one thing I do not expect is an attack on the Diet building following the announcement of election results. Po-tay-toe, Po-tah-toe

234: I reckon you nailed it. Opposition parties (I opine also in most euro places) are egocentrics seeking ?? $$ or face time/ voice time. stress I referred to euro! at least democratic as jpn, I opine (ok moderator?)

Anyone else still waiting for that rollout of the LDPs "New Capitalism"? LOL. Neither am I.

What politicians do here beyond run for elections, feather their own beds with siphoned public cash and invent new, inane slogans for policies they will never inact, is beyond me.

What to expect from Japan's Oct 27 election

A bunch of hot air, lies, noise, no helping the economy for the common worker and a lot of old men.

Hito BitoToday  01:20 pm JST

What politicians do here beyond run for elections, feather their own beds with siphoned public cash and invent new, inane slogans for policies they will never inact, is beyond me.

Perhaps the down-voters should explain it all for us.

Abe234Oct. 22  08:49 am JST

Makes you wonder, how good a democracy is, if the opposition factions can’t get their act together.

That's a far too simplistic way of looking at the situation. Even if they could get their act together the LDP have got the elections so structurally rigged in their favour that it really wouldn't make much of a difference.