OSAKA – Yesterday’s landslide general-election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one-party-dominated system that the catch-all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955. For most of the last decade, the DPJ was not seen as a viable alternative to the LDP, although they appeared to form a pseudo-two-party system.
大阪——昨天日本民主党（DPJ）在大选中以压倒性优势获胜结束了自民党无所不能的（LDP）一党专政体系，从1955年以后一党专政体系的控制权就一直牢牢掌握在自民党手中。过去10年来，尽管伪两党体系已经初见规模，但民主党一直被看作自民党可能的替代党派。冷战结束20年后，日本终于即将建立起后冷战时期的政府体系。