Japan must not create a leadership vacuum at the Bank of Japan when its governor's term ends in April, the head of the main opposition party said, suggesting the party would not delay the appointment as it did five years ago as a political tactic. "They could recover - everyone was writing the obituary of the LDP in 2009," said Jeffrey Kingston, a faculty member at Temple University, Japan Campus. "But they are in intensive care and the prognosis is not good."