Leaderless Japan

Leaderless JapanIt used to be the envy of the world; now the hope is that things have got so bad that reform is finally possible SINCE 2006 Japan has had no fewer than five prime ministers. Three of them lasted just a year. The feckless Yukio Hatoyama, who stepped down on June 2nd, managed a grand total of 259 days. Particularly dispiriting about Mr Hatoyama's sudden departure is that his election

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これだけ状況がひどいんだから、そろそろ真の改革が出てくるか。でも迷走中というのが現下の印象There is hope therefore that things are beginning to get so bad that reform really will appear relatively soon. But the main impression at the moment is of drift.