Koizumi: the newest Reagan/Thatcher neoliberal?

Courtesy of the Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI New York, political scientists John Campbell and Patricia MacLachlan explain how Koizumi rode out the second largest landslide in postwar Japanese history on an issue as seemingly irrelevent as postal reform. What does postal privatization really entail? Campbell compares Koizumi's neoliberalism to that of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and MacLachlan provides a history of the Japan Post since the Meiji era. Listen here.