yukio hatoyama will be the next prime minister. he has promised an end to the cozy relationship between politicians, big business, and this has dominated japan for so long. >> we are grateful for their deep support. >> through the night there were celebrations. the democratic party of japan to exceed after seats. it was a landslide, a stunning reversal of fortune. now another government must face up big expectations. >> i voted for the dpj because i really wanted a change. for the outgoing prime minister taro aso, the humiliation of defeat of less than one year in office. he stepped down as leader. >> yukio hatoyama has been handed the power to push through real change. his talents now is to not disappoint. >> he is back in the studio now. he joins us live. what does this say today about the mindset of the japanese people that we have seen this historic shift? >> i think the election was less about the policies, less about it unpopular prime minister giving way to a new man. it was more about the japanese people delivering a verdic

>> well, hatoyama's party, they are against the iraq war, first of all. and they are against using military powers to solve international affairs. and that's why they wanted to stop the legislation to continue the refuelling of the u.s. warships in the indian ocean but the question is, they still want to work with the united states to fight against extremism. so they have to find another alternative somehow to show that u.s. is -- i mean, japan is willing to work with the obama administration. >> do you think that they will also be looking for another alternative when it comes to those u.s. bases in japan where 50,000 american troops are currently stationed? >> mm-hmm. yeah. but their idea is to relocate one of the bases out of okinawa. that's where the u.s. bases are consolidated and concentrated. but the question is where they can move the bases to one is accepted. so that's going to be the issue. also this party has right wingers and left wingers. all different idea of people in terms of the national security monitors. so the question is how they can c

hatoyama is a grandson of the japanese prime minister in the 19 '50s.he comes from an old important political family in japan. so these are not fresh faces in that sense. they're not radicals. they really come out of the mainstream of japanese politics. although on the other hand, if you look at the new members of the parliament that have been elected, a third of them are brand-new to the party and all almost all of those are dpj. so we will have a lot of new faces, a lot of new blood but at the bottom, not at the top. >> daniel snooeted heer and sheila smith, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> lehrer: now, the tough path to finding a job in this economy. our economics correspondent paul solman has the story. it's part of his ongoing series on making sense of the financial news. >> the line from manhattan job fair in august, about to open within the hour. >> this is like a job, actually. job searching is a job. it just doesn't pay. >> chandra smith what here with andrea bresler. >> are you seeing the economy recover, the green shoots people keep talk

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the man hoping to succeed him is yukio hatoyama, of the opposition democratic party it has campaigned on the slogan "putting people's lives first" and has gained traction with many young people. in fact you may not have known that there is a youthful wave sweeping be the japanese political landscape. steve chao of al jazeera english starting from nara, southwest of tokyo. >> reporter: japan's ancient capital of nara is the city's steep in tradition. residents observe rituals passed down for more than a century ago. it's with great surprise then that the new man in the seat of power is just 33 years old. general nakagawa became the youngest mayor's history in july when people overwhelmingly vote him in. the last four mayors were in their 60s. >> translator: i can paint clearly on the message that i would offer a new style of politics and that was in tune to the spirit of the people. they want somebody to take real political action. >> reporter: believing that mood for change is countrywide. japan's opposition has deployed what's been dubbed, the princess corps. king-clad young candidat

the party's leader yukio hatoyama is almost certain to be their prime minister and faces series problems including their stalled economy and record high unemployment. >>> here at home georgia investigators say they need help in their investigation of a mass murder. seven people were found dead in a mobile home saturday mornimorning and an eighth died from wounds at the scene. a $25,000 reward is being offered. one man is under arrest for allegedly tampering with evidence but he is not considered a suspect. >>> in northern california investigators plan to spend another day trying to dig up evidence in the case against phillip garrido. he is the man accused of kidnapping and holding jaycee dugard for 18 years. police say garrido may be linked to the unsolved murders of prostitutes back in the '90s. here's mike von frechld. >> reporter: fbi and police are here in force, looking for evidence. they are digging up phillip garrido's backyard and now they are also combing through his neighbor's property, as well, because the home was once vacant, and garrido used a shed there. >> some dogs were