This is an interesting tip (I hope) about Japanese politics.

PM Aso=The great-grand son of the Ex-PM Sigeru YOSHIDA
PM Fukuda=Son of Ex-PM Takeo FUKUDA
PM Abe=Son of Ex-FM Shintaro ABE and the grand son of Nobusuke KISHI
PM Koizumi=The son of ex-Health Minsiter

These are the family background of Japanese Prime Minsters in the lat ten years. It's easy for me to take more examples. You understand why Japense people are so fed up with the current state of Japanese politics, don't you? And unfortunately, Yukio HATORAMA, the opposition leader who will surely become the next prime minister, is the grand son of ex-PM Ichiro HATOYAMA. We will choose him simply because there is no other choice in order to change the government.

I guess that the politics in other countries are more or less similar (although that of Japanese are very bad in comparion with other "developped" countries) That's why the election of OBAMA was suth a fresh air not only for Americans but also for the people in the rest of the wrold, I guess.