Television coverage of the election was even more lackluster also because the ruling Liberal Democratic Party pulled the wool over the public's eyes on what was truly at stake in the election. We are

Following Abe / LDP / Nippon Kaigi's plan to a tee.

"… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses" -

Roman satirical poet Juvenal (circa A.D. 100).

Ah well decades of voter apathy & this is what you get. The Japanese public have no one to blame but themselves.

Sense at last!

I tend to believe in what Iwao Osaka said concerning TV coverage of the election campaign. It was said over and over again here on the Japan Today site that Jiminto and Abe were not being straightforward in their wordage on what they intended to do after the election. They kept yelling it's about Abenomics when all along it was about changing the Constitution. Jiminto and Komeito lied their way through the election campaign ...