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Via the BBC: Yoshihiko Noda wins Japan leadership race
Noda won the contest to be the leader of the governing party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and is expected to be confirmed as PM tomorrow.
Noda was the Finance Minister in outgoing Prime Minister Kan’s cabinet.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003.
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