In Japan’s biggest non-event of the year, parliament elected to replace Koizumi with Shinzo Abe as the new prime minister. Abe will be the first prime minister born after World War II. Abe vowed to continue Koizumi’s “mantle of reform” and create a “beautiful nation.” Whether this means anything besides visiting the Yasukuni shrine and antagonizing neighbors is unknown.

I wonder if Japanese has an idiom similar to: “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”

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