Nobody can in Japan if Kan can't.(politician Naoto Kan)

Business Asia | October 19, 1998| | Copyright

Japan's lumbering political network is in urgent need of fresh blood. Opposition leader Naoto Kan may be just the injection needed to kickstart reforms.

It's simple: Japan's economy needs structural reforms.

American economists agree. European economists agree. Asia-Pacific economists agree. Even the Japanese agree.

Given such consensus, why have the wheels of change moved so slowly within Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party?

A less-than-flattering theory --offered by a Japanese no less --is that the muddled political scene can be attributed to Japan's ...

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