Yasunori Sone
Yasunori Sone
ability handle lame minus
He's already a lame duck, but it would be a minus for his ability to handle the LDP and parliament.
immature means politician
Being young as a politician means being energetic. But it can also mean that the politician is immature or fragile.
assassin candidates captured creation political
There's no way around it. Koizumi is a political genius. His creation of the assassin candidates has captured the public's imagination.
beat cast democratic democrats party reforms stressed
Koizumi beat up on the old LDP and cast the Democratic Party as anti-reform, ... The Democrats should have stressed more that Koizumi's reforms were not enough.
beat cast democratic democrats party reforms stressed
Koizumi beat up on the old LDP and cast the Democratic Party as anti-reform. The Democrats should have stressed more that Koizumi's reforms were not enough.
constitution focus
The constitution will be a focus in 2007,
achieve change framework means possible reform tried within
Koizumi tried to achieve reform within the LDP framework ... But he couldn't do that, so that means reform is only possible if there is a change in government.