Japan General Election Day 2009
Judgment Day is finally upon us! As the election results come in tonight, be sure to check out TPR’s live video cast:
The webcast will include Garrett DeOrio, Christopher Gunson, Adam Richards, and Ken Worsley. The broadcast will start at 8:00 p.m., and will be viewable at Livestream:
There’s no need to log in or create an account, simply open that page and you can chat by creating a nickname. We will also have our Skype account open and ready to take phone calls. Skype us at transpacificradio (one word, all lower case.)
For those of you in the United States, this broadcast will be starting at 7:00AM EST.
Tobias Harris of Observing Japan and will also be liveblogging election results. And some live blogging from Our Man in Abiko.
Handy links to check out before the results come in: this list of election vocabulary from Reuters and Stippy’s informative post about the election.
Update: The LDP suffered a crushing defeat, dropping from 300 to 119 seats. The DPJ went from 115 to 308 seats. The Komeito lost 10 seats, including the one that belonged to its leader. The “Koizumi Children” were wiped out. The political world has been turned upside down.
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African/Japanese Group Arrested For Money-laundering
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Another Monkey in Tokyo?
Foreign Tourists Go Without Dinner
The Ainu and the Bear
Gunman Attacks Discovery Channel
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED
Bryozoan Slime Blobs Menace Japan
Daytime Drinking Parties: Bring Your Kids!
Woooooooooo!
Goodbye LDP!
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But if the LDP goes away, we’re stuck with the DPJ … *shudders*
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YES WE CAN
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Yes, we can tax and spend our way into bankruptcy! Yippee, welcome to ObamaLand.
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Ha ha! As if that wasn’t already happening. Can’t squeeze blood from a rock.
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Ah James, you left Our Man out of the party. He’ll be “liveblogging” as you call it (tweeting with the feed on his website) too from 9pm Abiko Standard Time, 1pm Blighty Time and 8 am Big Apple Time – if he gets the kids in bed in time.
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Just hope that it isn’t the same kind of Change Obama has promised.
Because the change he’s bringing in is basically no change, just business as usual!
Congrats on breaking the rule of the LPD. I like the libertarian overtones of the DPJ. Hopefully it works out for Japan.
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im smoking the tea and dring the tabaco now..
in japan the rule is no matter who lose, yakuza win always..
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Dear Americans,
Stop overlaying your damn political system and expectations on Japan and every other country. Liberal = Obama = evil and Conservative = Republican = good does not apply outside of your little bubbles.
Love,
The Rest of the World (incl. Japan)
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SOSHARISM!!!!!
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Hopefully the DPJ can use this win to do something good anyway. I mean last time they had a chance at the country, they spent so much time campaigning against LDP that when they actually got into office because of public disgust at the corruption, a lot of what was spent was campaigning against that party, not formulating sound ideas.
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I’ll be frank. This is the first time I’ve heard that japanese people do vote. Seriously.
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