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Japan’s centre-left opposition Democratic party won a crushing victory over the long-ruling conservative Liberal Democrats on Sunday, redrawing the political landscape of the world’s second largest economy.
The U.S. and others may find Tokyo to be a more complex partner than it had been, as they deal with shifting leaders and priorities for the first time in decades. But Japan also might prove a more willing ally on the world stage as its new leaders pledge to take a greater role on issues such as United Nations peacekeeping missions and climate change.
But while the Japanese people appear ready for “regime change,” the DPJ’s slogan, they don’t seem to want radical change--but rather change in the sense elaborated by former DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa: “change so that things remain the same.” Or, in this case, so that things might be as they once were.