"Gambaro!" cheered Junichiro Koizumi, punching the air with his fist. "Let's do our best!" Japan's new prime minister will have to do better than that. By winning the leadership election of the Liberal Democratic Party (ldp) against the wishes of its top men, Mr Koizumi has already performed one conjuring trick. If he is to honour his bold promises of reform, he will have to perform another.
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