Disponible en libre accès : http://regulation.revues.org/index406.htmlInternational audienceThe recent electoral victory won by Mr. Koizumi in Japan is an opportunity to propose a reflection on the modalities of articulation between the political and the economic in this country and the changes underway. In the first part of this text, we will try to survey the electoral results and offer a synthetic reading, by relying on political comments from the main Japanese newspapers. This election also suggests a significant shift of the regime in the mode of articulation between politics and economics. To understand the current movement, we must first recall the nature of the politico-economic regime that has imposed itself since the end of the Se...