2009 will be remembered as a turning point in postwar politics, a time when voters ousted the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party and put the Democratic Party of Japan in power.
2010 will see the DPJ-led coalition face its first serious electoral trial, with the Upper House election in July likely to be a make-or-break event for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
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