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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FOR more than half a century the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled Japan, with only a brief hiatus in the early 1990s.

半个多世纪以来，自民党一直统治着日本，只是在二十世纪初期有过短暂间歇。

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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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After all, the Kobe fiasco hastened the end of the Liberal Democratic Party's post-war supremacy and the rise of Mr Kan's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

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This is only the second time in 50 years we'll have a non-Liberal Democratic Party government in Japan.

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These were the days of what seemed, on the surface, a battle between the pro-business Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Socialist Party.

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