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New government after Japan poll

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Exit polls show Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan has overwhelmingly defeated the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan's general election. Yukio Okamoto, former adviser to the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist, discuss whether this constitutes a "revolution" for the country.

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