The current political arena of Japan has been developed based on that great change in the ideological situation. The nucleus of the Conservative Party, which forms the coalition government with the LDP and Komeito, is also to become a political party in power. As you can see, except for the Communist Party, no party has an ideology or policy-which is supposed to be an essential element to form a political party. I cannot help saying that this is abnormal. I do not think such an abnormal situation can last long.
Japan can no longer afford such a chaotic political situation.
Now, as you may know, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori suggested that he would resign sometime in April. The LDP members have started discussion about the new president. But no matter who becomes the new president, I do not think the LDP will recover as it used to be because, as I mentioned before, the LDP no longer has a good reason to form a political party. I am pretty sure that the LDP will be completely defeated in the upper house election in July. That is, the LDP and its ruling partners will lose the majority in the Upper House.