Koizumi Dissolves Parliament, Japs get Choice

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Do you want a shitty economic policy or a shitty foreign policy? Would you rather have lead or mercury in your water? DPJ runs on an anti corruption anti bureaucracy platform, but it's a conglomerate of interests with too much socialism for my taste. LDP is filled with Yakuza connections and is pretty corrupt. At least, Koizumi wants to privatize the postal system, but he's right wing in all the wrong places, with Yasukuni shrine visits. DPJ favors a more Asiacentric foreign policy though, with less "piss off the koreans, piss off the chinese" and they have called American bases in Japan relics of the Cold War.

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http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=315730
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Koizumi dissolves Parliament, calls elections
TOKYO, AUG 8 (AP)
Japan's upper house of Parliament today voted down a legislation to split up and sell the country's postal services, prompting Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to follow through on a threat to call snap elections that could shake the ruling party's grip on power.

Defections from Koizumi's own Liberal Democatic Party helped defeat the reform package by a 125-108 vote, dealing a painful setback o the prime minister's longtime quest to privatise the postal savings and insurance businesses and pen their massive deposits to private investors.

Koizumi called an emergency Cabinet meeting, and ministers _ with one dissenting vote - decided to dissolve the lower house of Parliament, Freign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said.

The order was later read before the lower house at a specially called session, after which the disbanded lawmakers filed out of the chamber.

"The upper house decided that postal privatisation is not needed. So I would like to ask the general public whether it supprts or opposes it. That's why I dissolved Parliament," Koizumi told a group of reporters after the dissolution was announced. "I will do my best to win the elections so that I can continue the reforms."

Koizumi said the ballot will be held Sept. 11 and pledged to resign if LDP fails to win combined majority with its coalition partner, the New Komeit Party. Campaigning for the chamber's 480 seats begins Aug 30.

The dissent over the package revealed deep divisions within the LDP, which has held onto power almost uninterruptedly since its founding in 1955. Reform was expected to be a major issue in th campagn, and som speculated that it could split the LDP into separate camps.
 

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Sorry for being off topic here, but do japanese people hate it when people use the word "Jap" or "Japs"? I am an American, and I hate it when people use the word "Jap" to describe japanese people. Its a racial slur (at least to me) and I want to know what japanese people think about it.

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it is okay to me, Isee it as an abreviation because they are simple too slow or ignorant to fully spell word correctly. I pat them on head and babytalk people who do it. :)

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The point is basically, to call everyone by derogations. Unfortunately, we have nothing adequate for europeans, and calling a negro a nigger would get you bitchslapped.

english lolol

>>5

How about 'Peons

sounds better to just call them all "Finnish".

>>8
Onoes, don't offend the finnish, why many upstandin' tards are finns, and look at what happened to Jax and Kern! DO YOU WANT TO KILL US ALL MAN?

Americans = USers
Europeans = Euros
Japanese = Japs
Chinese = Chinks
Koreans = KEKEKE

>>10
Korea = win

God!!
　South Korean demand that U.S. must compensate to South korea for damages of North Korean inhabitants slaughter which was
caused by U.S. soldiers at Korean war.

　http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=050000&biid=2005120255448

The country which divided the peninsula is AMERICA!
Apologize! Pay money!

>>13
More like tell those welfare gooks to get a job.

<丶｀∀´> Apology juice

>>15
8====D Aporogry juice
fixed.

Doesn't it seem like it should be a bigger deal to dissolve the diet?  Isn't that like the president saying "Ok House of Representatives, GTFO"?

Yeah, I was wondering the same myself. If the parliament got dissolved in here (Chile), it would be a mess.

Wonder if this is going to end in ultraviolence, Akira style...

if by "ultraviolence" you mean "rape"
then yes

in a parliamentary democracy, many times there are not fixed election days.  In a republic like the USA, elections happen every 4th November, for example.  It's all very planned out, and everyone knows when the election will be.  In a parliamentary democracy like Japan, or Canada, for that matter, the Prime Minister can decide "Now is a good time for an election.  Off we go!", and have parliament dissolved, and a general election called.  It's normal.  There are limits, of course.  In the Canadian example, there must be no more than 5 years between elections, but if at any time before that 5 year deadline it is deemed advantageous to call an election, the Prime Minister will dissolve parliament and call an election. 

I guess it does seem a little dramatic to someone used to fixed election dates, etc., but it's normal for us.

Thank you for clarifying that, and not being a huge fag like other people.

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That's funny, I was trying to be a fag.

lol, nipponese politics

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