The Democratic Party of Japan's landslide victory election has stirred interest among foreign media, who generally view the ousting of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled almost without interruption for 54 years, as a positive sign of change.
In addition to front-page coverage, the Joong Ang daily, one of South Korea's three biggest newspapers, ran an eight-page feature on the DPJ victory.
Although the Japanese-language editorial on its Web site credited the victory more to public disapproval of the LDP than outright support for the DPJ, it expressed hope that the presumptive next prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, will avoid visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines Class-A war criminals as well as Japan's war dead, and work to give Koreans living in Japan the right to vote in local elections.
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