Opinion | Japan Comes of Age (Published 2009)Tokyo LAST week, some news outlets called it a revolution when the Democratic Party of Japan unseated the Liberal Democratic Party, which had been in power here almost continuously for a half-century. The old guard was out, replaced by a breath of fresh air. So why don’t people look happier? The Japanese people are realizing that no government has the power to fix their problems. But this is a goo
The Institute of Politics at Harvard University
