When the anti-Koizumi was exhausted as a core driving force of DPJ solidarity, the DPJ had become stuck in diverging policy orientations between fiscal soundness and no tax hike-and finally split. The divided DPJ symbolizes the end of the anti-Koizumi era in Japanese politics. However, the end of the anti-Koizumi era never means the rise of new discourse of Japanese politics.
EAI Issue Briefing No. MASI 2012-04
