Across Asia: Japan

DPJ eyes quick change

Japan's opposition Democratic Party, which polls show is likely to win power in an election on Sunday, would aim to form a Cabinet within three weeks so the new premier could attend a UN General Assembly meeting, a senior party lawmaker said. Newspaper surveys predict Yukio Hatoyama's decade-old Democratic Party of Japan will win the August 30 vote by a landslide, ousting the business-friendly Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for only the second time since its 1955 founding.