Japan’s new centre-left government is due to take power on Wednesday in a fresh start for Asia’s top economy, which has been under conservative rule for almost all of the post-war era. Yukio Hatoyama, head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), was to be voted in as prime minister two and a half weeks after his party’s stunning election victory changed the country’s political landscape. “I’m thrilled with the joy of creating history, and at the same time I feel the very grave responsibility for creating history,” Hatoyama told reporters in the morning as he came out of his house. Defeated prime minister Taro Aso and his cabinet resigned en masse early Wednesday, paving the way for the launch of the new government. Aso was in office for less than a year amid sagging voter support. Japan’s usually risk-averse voters, tired with a stagnant political system and years of economic malaise, took a chance on Hatoyama’s untested DPJ when they threw out Aso’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on August 30. “It will be the start of a new era,” Hidekazu Kawai, political science professor emeritus of Gakushuin University, told AFP. “But that is not to say the public is…
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