Why South Korea's election isn't leading to Japan bashing this time

TOKYO -- The stinging defeat suffered by South Korea's ruling conservative People Power Party (PPP) in the April 10 general election says something about the ups and downs of the country's politics. But relations with Japan -- a topic fraught with difficulty -- weren't a factor in this outcome.

Go Seon-gyu, a professor at Fukushima College in Japan and an expert in South Korean elections, made a convincing case for the biggest factor behind the loss.