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The Japanese ruling party has actually lost power and smoothly transitioned.

• pas 4y ago
  > The LDP has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955—a period called the 1955 System—except between 1993 and 1994, and again from 2009 to 2012. in theory there's no problem with this, after all if they represent the plurality ... just as in theory many political systems should work just fine. and it's certainly possible that this is what the vast majority of people there wants, so it might score 100% on "democracy", even if there are certain very obvious problems (let's say their insane justice system, or the simple fact that their population is both shrinking and ageing)