In September 2009, LDP, Japan's ruling party for 55 years, was defeated in the election and had to surrender its power to DPJ. This marked the first ever – and so far the only – change of government in Japan's post-war history.
The DPJ government then collapsed in December 2012, followed by the party’s total disintegration.
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