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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