[chajin]

I once compiled a kind of genealogy of Aso, Abe, Hatoyama, and some of the usual players inJaanese politics: most of them have families that have been around politically since at least the Meiji Revolution. We think we have political families here, but they’ve got nothing on the Japanese.

[TigerLikesRooster]

It is true. They have hereditary political class. While it guarantees political continuity and consistence, it also provides ‘more of the same’ year after year.
Same incompetent politicians stay around, and keep occupying one senior post after another in government and their party.