BEIJING – Since they were born in 1955 – with the decisive push of the CIA – they have governed practically without interruption. Except for two small “road accidents” (in the first half of the 90s and between 2009 and 2012) the conservatives have dominated the Japanese political landscape for the past 66 years. And the country. Like? A fragmented and too vast opposition (as many as 9 parties), a marked abstention that has always favored them, the disaffection with politics on the part of the youngest, very short electoral campaigns that often do not give the opponents time to organize themselves, and an electoral system that has not been able – and wanted – to adapt to the urban and demographic transformations of the country with the result …
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