The cosmetic nature of the change reinforces the perception that the LDP is flailing.
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So a more hopeful avenue of political change may be a split within the LDP.
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But the patronage wing of the LDP could not swallow such fundamental change in Japan.
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Accordingly, it rejected the free-market version of change championed by Junichiro Koizumi, a reforming LDP prime minister.
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The retirement of former PM and LDP kingmaker Takeshita Noboru, 76, is widely regarded as heralding a generational change in the hidebound party.
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