In the United States, it is the routine work of think tanks and business organizations to examine the voting behavior of each legislator.
In Britain, people assess the performance of political parties by looking at the number of promises they managed to fulfill in their manifestos.
Japanese political parties, however, were spared such assessments -- until the Keidanren released its policy assessment of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan on Jan. 28.
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