Vote! (of course in Japan)

The bill of postal privatization has rejected.

Actually, it passed in the House of Representatives on July, but rejected in the House of Councilors on August.
And Koizumi said that when the bill is rejected, they will dissolve the House of Representatives.
Hence, the election will be held on September 11, 2005.

Koizumi is the party leader of the "Liberal Democratic Party" (LDP), which is the ruling party together with the "Clean Government Party".
Koizumi also pushes the bill of postal privatization.

But there are some members of the LDP who had voted against the bill, like Watanuki or Kamei.
Koizumi didn't allow them to run as a member of the LDP, thus they seceded.
They formed a new party, the "New National Party", Watanuki as the party leader.

Anyway the New National Party is unable to rule the government in everybody eyes, Koizumi decided to put candidates against them in each electoral district, and they called "assassins".

One of the most popular assassin, against Kamei is Horie, the president of the company "Livedoor", who had secured the business tie-up with Fuji TV.

He supports Koizumi reformation, but he runs for election independently of any party.
He is so popular in the economic world, and this is his new challenge.

Of course, I should not forget of the biggest opposition party, the Democratic Party.
Okada, the party leader, says that the postal privatization isn't the only point at issue, like problem on pension, and aims to come into power.

He has to say so, because public opinion says that about 70% of the people supports postal privatization, and Democratic Party can't support, since they are the opposition party.

Or do they rather want to say, "Privatization is good, but Koizumi reformation is not."?

Interesting thing is that both Koizumi and Okada say that they will resign the position if they can't get at least 50% of the seats.

Of course, there are other minor parties, but to mention about them makes the story too long.
So forgive me to omit.

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So what?
What I want to say is that this election will be so exciting!
It's rare in the history of Japan.

I hope I had a suffrage...

And I also hope that many people will vote in this election,
since Japan has extremely light vote.