Here comes the brat pack
“CHEN SHUI-BIAN is young and refreshing,” gushed Tokyo's governor, Shintaro Ishihara, after meeting Taiwan's 49-year-old president recently. “It's only in Japan that 40-somethings are considered brats.” Even in Japan, however, brats occasionally have their day. A new group of “young” politicians from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which dominates the coalition government, has begun to rattle the party's elderly executive.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Here comes the brat pack”
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