Japan must hold parliamentary elections by the end of September, and many people believe Mr. Aso's Liberal Democratic party will lose control of parliament.

日本必须在9月底之前举行议会选举，许多日本人认为，麻生所在的自民党会失去对日本国会的控制权。

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In the August 30th election the LDP lost 181 seats, accumulating a paltry tally of 119 compared with 300 held by Mr Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan.

在8月30号的大选中，自民党失去了181个席位，与自民党总共获得不到119个席位相比，鸠山由纪夫领导的共和党则获得了300个席位。

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It's reported that the opposition party Liberal Democratic party of Japan has sent people to South Korea to investigate the girl, trying to collect evidence to boost the impact of the scandal.

在野党自民党已派人到韩国调查该韩国女子的身份，要设法收集证据将绯闻闹大。

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His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The member of the Democratic Party of Japan started writing a personal blog and began broadcasting a weekly Webcast called "Suzukan-TV."

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

The Democratic Party of Japan surged to a 308-seat majority, all but confirming party leader Yukio Hatoyama as the country's next leader.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

That Japan and here I mean not just the Japan Democratic Party (DPJ) Noda cabinet, but also the ministry of foreign affairs (MOFA) and self-defense forces (SDF) bureaucracies, and, particularly, the factions within the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (DPJ) and nationalists allied with former Tokyo major Ishihara Shintaro did not expect a ferocious response from China, including shows of naval force and threats of occupation, is not credible.

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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.

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Optimists in China have suggested that internal democracy could help the party evolve into something like Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled for 54 years with only a brief interruption until its defeat this year.

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