The world in brief
Posted: August 31, 2009 at 2:10 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "This is a bloodless revolution, the first transfer of power from one party to another in postwar Japan." Tomoaki Iwai, a political science professor in Tokyo, after the party that has led Japan for nearly all of the postwar era was swept out of power Article, 1A
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