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Jaded voters set to return to what they know

Japan holds elections Sunday that are likely to bring it a seventh prime minister in six years. And despite anger at the country’s economic and diplomatic drift, voters who flirted with change last time look set grudgingly to return to what they know.

Although polls predict a return to power for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, analysts say the one-time natural party of government could win as merely the least worst option.

jadedには、疲れ切った馬（worn-out mare）を語源として「疲れきった、〈食欲などが〉減退した、うんざりした、あきあきした」の意味が あります。国政をまかせようにも意中の党がみあたらず、結局は昔来た道に戻る、そんな投票者が多いと予想されています。（GP）