japan's leadership has been a revolving door since koizumi left. basically, someone ends up elected with high public support, but it eventually ends up falling considerably (kan was at 15% when he resigned) due to a number of different issues. with kan, it was the mishandling of the nuclear disaster; with hatoyama before him, it was about going back on what he promised when the dpj came into power -- a big issue was the u.s. okinawa bases, which he promised to have moved out of the area but then went back on that promise after the u.s. was unwilling to budge on the issue, and he drew that out for months. and then he was involved in a funding scandal that kinda killed his popularity with the public.
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