you're part of this ldp elite.anese people kind of, i think, feel that there's no alternative and that cannot be good. well, if it's not good, people could always change the government. it is the people who elect the government injapan and the ldp with fresh ideas have been elected to govern the country, so, well, it seems to you maybe just a one—party rule, butjapan is a multiparty country and people are free to choose the government, and the ldp, with a track record, has been elected to govern the country by the people. in uk, sometimes there must be change of the government, but it is not always because of the fresh idea. the government party failed to rule the country properly and the people had to choose the alternative. so that could happen injapan. do you think the ldp right now is governing the country properly when your party is mired in scandal, the so—called slush fund scandal that has seen four cabinet ministers resign? investigations of it continue. many mps in your party seem to have been involved. th