The difficult part is just starting. I’m skeptical that the DPJ can make effective use of this failure of the LDP- a failure that was from within, not from any effective attack from the DPJ.
Observing Japan: The results are in…
The difficult part is just starting. I’m skeptical that the DPJ can make effective use of this failure of the LDP- a failure that was from within, not from any effective attack from the DPJ.
Observing Japan: The results are in…
The DPJ’s proportional representation list doesn’t give me much hope.
At the top of the list:
#1 committee member for public sector trade union(Jichiro)
#2 NTT trade union rep and Telco/IT union committee member
#3 ex-house of representatives member
#4 ex-Minister for Home Affairs
#5 advisor to the automobile industry trade union(Jidousha Souren)
Some other choice picks
#7 ex-committee member for the teachers’ union (Nikkyoso)
#9 ex-committee member for the electrical workers’ union(Denryoku Souren)
#10 Committee member for UI Zensen (Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers’ Unions)
#12 Committee member for the Basic Industries Workers’ Union (steel, mining, shipbuilding, aerospace, industrial machinery, refining, machining, logistics etc)
That and a bunch of ex-national or state politicians. (and 2 local politicians)
Of the 20 who got elected, only two (one, a Buddhist monk, the other the father of professional golfer Sakura Yokomine) are neither politicians or trade unions related.