The funny thing is that Japan really has no way out of it, either. Their conservative party is the one that got them into this debt mess in the first place, and the alternatives to the conservative LDP are the Komeitei (the Sokka Gakkai party, sort of moderates), the center-left DPJ, and the Communists, none of whom are really going to be about debt reduction.
Not that i'm suggesting the DPJ would've gotten Japan out of the mess they're in, but as an outsider, it seems profoundly stupid that they elected the LDP back in after the DPJ was in power for only 5 years (compared to the LDP being in power for 55 years before that).
Japanese politics are a strange beast. But also quite slow-moving and boring (odd for me, as i love Japan and love international politics, but i have very little interest in Japan's politics because they are slow moving and not at all personality-driven)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
