Yet Mr Koizumi paid mostly only lip-service to the idea of smashing the post-war system in which LDP factions had monopolised—and more recently paralysed—political decisions.

不过，他声称要粉碎战后自民党的垄断体系，只是动嘴皮子功夫罢了。

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Five industry experts LDP: pre-sale housing should not abolish the system?

五大业内专家纵横谈：房屋预售制度该不该取消?。

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LDP's own seniority system, which regulates the struggle for power between the party's competing factions, is particularly rigid.

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The decision coincides with LDP resistance to efforts to allow a jury system in Japan, says Kohei Nakabo, the former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and now the chair of a committee to reform the legal system.

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Third, by overthrowing the LDP, Japan's voters have turfed out not just a party, but a whole system.

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