Something similar was at play when, in 2009, voters ended almost 55 years of uninterrupted rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and subsequently fell out of love with the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) that replaced it.
So the prime minister has some explaining to do, and the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, seeking to bring down the coalition led by his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), will make all the hay it can.
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which the DPJ ousted in 2009, is grey and cynical.
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She is a TV personality and a member of parliament for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
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Nevertheless, he pulled the strings in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
In Japan's curiously genteel election campaign, opinion polls indicate that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is heading for defeat.
In 1993 he stormed out of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), of which he had been a brilliant, young secretary-general.
Japan's opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has chosen Shinzo Abe to be its new leader, potentially positioning him to become the next prime minister.
The DPJ came to power in September promising to break the disreputable triangle linking the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the bureaucracy and big business.
But he held sway over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for a decade after that as the master manipulator of money and factions.
Abe Shinzo, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and very likely the next prime minister, replacing Noda Yoshihiko, is calling for greater QE activism.
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The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)-led coalition that accomplished the historic ousting of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in August 2009, is no more.
The following day, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secretary-general, Mori Yoshiro, also 62, was elected prime minister by the Diet, securing 335 of 488 valid lower house votes.
Arguably, there are more ideological differences within the party than with its rival, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which governed Japan for most of the half-century to 2009.
All three have been held up by opposition from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which pretty much ran Japan for 55 years until 2009 and is fixated with destroying Mr Kan.
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Already, the Ozawa party seems likely to become the third largest in the lower house, the key parliamentary chamber, coming after the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) crowding out the New Komeito (NK).
Last week the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - which governed Japan for half a century before it was ousted by the DPJ in 2009 - elected Shinzo Abe its new leader.
Mr Abe, who was briefly prime minister between 2006 and 2007, was returned to the post earlier this month, when his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a landslide victory in national elections.
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The no confidence motion presented by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led opposition parties to the lower house of the Diet on June 2 failed by a vote of 152 for to 293 against.
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For the first time, however, an 80-strong group of economically liberal politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Hidenao Nakagawa, a former LDP secretary-general, is promoting a bold immigration policy.
They gave the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 40 extra seats and, by doing so, gave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) its first serious challenger in half a century (see second chart).
It was during last year's election campaign that Mr Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) proposed the event to mark the day in 1952 when the San Francisco Peace Treaty took effect, formally ending WWII and the allied occupation.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the newly installed Minister of Finance and Economy, Mr. Yosano, has been fairly consistent in wanting to retain the insurance structure of the pension scheme, but has been willing to tap consumption tax revenues to fill part of the funding gap.
Fresher in memory is the landslide victory delivered last month by the same voters to the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Komeito (NK) coalition, by virtue of which two largely failed former LDP prime ministers, Abe Shinzo (58) as Prime Minister and Aso Taro (72) as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, are once again at the helm, this time doubling their powers as a team.
Its main opposition Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) supported the tax hike in August.
Yosano formerly held cabinet rank in Liberal Democratic Party governments, and was an LDP member.
Nominally, Japan's slow moving political realignment has produced a kind of two party system, with the long-entrenched Liberal Democratic Party pitted against the New Frontier Party, which is made up mainly of dissidents from the LDP and the religious-based Komei party.
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