Japan’s Sarah Palin PartyThe Democratic Party of Japan has come under fire for recruiting young, attractive, female candidates, with little political or life experience — including a former erotic film star — in what critics see as a cheap and shameless attempt to broaden its appeal to voters.
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Malcolm Turnbull’s Japanese lesson
There is a local lesson to be learned from the Japanese election result. Like what happens when a party’s long-term decline has been masked by one leader’s success…
Young swinging Japanese voters cause landslides
Young Japanese voters — middle class, university educated, nonchalant about politics 30 somethings — often turn out to be the biggest decider of Japanese elections.
