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| [00:00.00] | The man expected to be Japan's next prime minister |
| [00:05.13] | Yukio Hatoyama has held |
| [00:07.12] | his party's election victory as a revolution. |
| [00:09.49] | Exit polls suggest the center left Democratic Party of Japan |
| [00:13.65] | has won by landslide, |
| [00:14.96] | crushing the liberal democrats |
| [00:16.89] | who have dominated Japanese politics for half a century. |
| [00:19.75] | Roland Buerk reports from Tokyo. |
| [00:22.17] | Japan has now beginning a process |
| [00:24.60] | that has only been through once before |
| [00:26.28] | since 1955 the transition of power from liberal democratic party |
| [00:30.57] | to a new government. |
| [00:32.56] | Yukio Hatoyama must nice steer |
| [00:34.87] | the world second biggest economy back to sustainable growth |
| [00:38.04] | after a crushing recession |
| [00:39.78] | and tackle record unemployment. |
| [00:42.02] | The Democratic Party plans to forge a diplomacy less subservient |
| [00:46.50] | to the United States, and improve relations with its Asian neighbors. |
| [00:50.29] | They've also promised |
| [00:51.91] | to expand the welfare state, |
| [00:53.40] | even though Japan is already deeply indebted, |
| [00:55.45] | and rapidly aging population |
| [00:58.25] | is straining social security budgets. |
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