2009年日本众议院选举与日本政治的发展变化

The 2009 Election of Japan’s House of Representatives and Changes and Development in Japan’s Politics

2009年8月日本的众议院选举,民主党击败自民党获得政权,党首鸠山由纪夫出任首相。这一被媒体称之为政治大地震的选举结果,突出表现了日本国内政治生态的结构性变化,必将推进日本政坛以自民党、民主党两大政党为中心的政治格局的形成,传统革新政党的生存空间萎缩,政界整体将更趋保守化倾向。然而,由此认定日本从此就会形成稳定的两大政党制度化交替执政的体制,还为时过早。2010年7月参院选将是检验民主党的一个重要节点。

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated the liberal Democratic’ Party (LDP) in the 2009 Japan House of Representatives election. Regarded as a political earthquake, the results of the election highlight a structural change in the political ecology inside Japan. It will give rise to an emergence of a political structure in which the two major parties, LDP and DPJ, are at the center of Japan’s political arena. With the living space for traditionally reformist parties being narrowed down, the whole of the political circles will tend to be even more conservative. But it is still too early to predict that Japan is sure from now on to establish a stable political system in which the two major parties take turns to hold power. The Senate election in July, 2010 will be a critical moment to have DPJ tried and tested.