Last Sunday, Prefectural elections for the Tokyo Metoropolitan Assembly was held for the first time in 3 years and DPJ, which is the most popular opposition party in Japan so far, got almost sweeping winning against ruling coalition of LDP and New Komeito. Although this is a municipal election, the results is regarde as the test for the general election of house of representatives, wchich is to be held 30th August. One of the biggest concern is whether LDP should replace the prime minister, Taro Aso, for the next election even after 3times change of the position with no national election or stick to match with DPJ by PM Aso' s leadership.
In my opinion, LDP should change its leader because even if most of the constituents regard the forth change of its leader with no election as nothing but populism, the situation is so advantageous for DPJ that it is very likely that lots of totally new politicain with no ability to contribute to the drastic but realistic administrative reform that is urgently needed to Japanese politics. The 2005 general election was a good example. In that fight, then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi brought LDP a gretest vistory and some of the elected candidates was incompetent to politics practically. Indeed, one of the "Koizumi children", which refer to the first term statesmen who owe their winning to Koizumi, Taizo Sugimura, was not able to get official status to run for the next election as LDP member, which means it is almost impossible to be re-elected.
So, the voters should not chose candidates by their party but thier real ablity and policy of the party. And this is only possible when LDP choses new leader of them and show thier real policy for the future against DPJ; the lame duck PM cannot come up with policy good enough to match up with DPJ nor put various opinons together in divers LDP members. LDP should not be afraid of changing its cover for the forth time in as many years and show the constituents a real will to change Japan and themselves.
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