But the stodgy LDP old guard, which had presided over two decades of economic stagnation, bore as much of the blame as the reformist Mr Koizumi.
The Japanese are renowned gourmets, but two decades of economic stagnation and the worst recession since World War II have put the finest cuisine beyond the reach of many wallets and expense accounts.
His poll ratings are falling relentlessly, largely because of Italy's economic stagnation.
A world in which most people enjoy prosperity and opportunity is surely better than one in which 80% are Mired in economic stagnation.
Japan - diminished on the world stage by a lost decade of economic stagnation, an aging and contracting population, a once-mighty yen facing marginalization - has disappeared from the story.
Tokyo that spring was a city mired in its ninth consecutive year of economic stagnation.
More than 32,000 people took their own lives in 2004, most of them older people suffering financial woes as the country struggled through a decade of economic stagnation.
The alternative is likely to lead to macroeconomic stagnation as lingering uncertainty dampens the animal spirits that we need to stir back up again.
After the riots in London in August, Ken Livingstone, a former mayor, declared that “the economic stagnation and cuts being imposed by the Tory government inevitably create social division.
The system’s inefficiencies could be tolerated in a period of high growth, but not in today’s climate of economic stagnation.
After years of economic stagnation, it is tempting to conclude from yet another political failure that Japan is truly ungovernable.
After a period of economic stagnation caused by the United Nations' embargo on trade with China, Hong Kong began to industrialise.
The upward march of violence is the bitter fruit of Japan's failure to fix its decade-ling economic stagnation, as well as the unraveling of strong social controls that made Japan a safe and orderly place, according to police, criminologists and victims.
In order to avoid the threat that the collapse of the banking system would lead to global economic stagnation, the British government took the lead in bailing out the banking system.
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