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Saturday 22nd August, 07:39 AM JST

Prime Minister Taro Aso chats with students while campaigning on the JR Keihin Tohoku line between Omiya and Kawaguchi in Saitama Prefecture on Friday.

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onewrldoneppl at 05:49 PM JST - 22nd August

BurakuminDes at 05:36 PM JST - 22nd August The way old Aso is leering at those teenage girls is downright creepy and sickening.

the way you leer @ them is better?
sirgamble at 06:25 PM JST - 22nd August

Meh the schoolgirl holding the Tommy Hilfiger bag looks happy, the rest of the guys in the background (who will be voting) look like they're giving him BIG dirties.

Who's he trying to fool? He's an ultra-conservative guy who wants to microchip foreigners. His dad owned a sweatshop for prisoners, and he's the 3rd in line after Abe and Fukuda.

I was lightly amused to see Fukuda and Abe were touring the country giving speeches about why people should vote for the LDP... even identifying themselves as former PM's. I saw Fukuda at my local mall talking about how hard it is being PM, and how only the LDP can handle it. He's living proof of such claims I guess?
kyoken at 06:27 PM JST - 22nd August

Hopefully he is not "accidentally" mistaken for a groper by these young women.
Simon_Foston at 07:39 PM JST - 22nd August

Sarge said,

Outspoken - What makes you think Hatoyama would be a better PM than Aso? Because he doesn't make as many mistakes reading kanji?

What makes you think he'd be a worse one? Oh wait, let me guess. The DPJ's foreign policy isn't as Republican-friendly?

Anyway, given that this is a man who probably hasn't had to drive himself anywhere since before he was conceived, seeing him pretending to be an ordinary joe on a commuter train is pretty laughable.
Sarge at 07:43 PM JST - 22nd August

Simon - Hatoyama hasn't had to drive himself anywhere since before he was conceived either. Amazing huh?
realist at 08:04 PM JST - 22nd August

I bet this was the first time in his life that the Aso was on a public train.
BurakuminDes at 10:23 PM JST - 22nd August

BurakuminDes at 05:36 PM JST - 22nd August The way old Aso is leering at those teenage girls is downright creepy and sickening.

the way you leer @ them is better?

Ha ha! I don't leer at teens on trains - honest! I'm not Japanese! LOL.
funkyfresh at 10:33 PM JST - 22nd August

He having a heart attack?....
blvtzpk at 10:48 PM JST - 22nd August

"You call this a chi-ka-te-tsu? My, will wonders never cease! Where is the person you talk at when you want this thing to stop?"
IvanCoughalot at 11:24 PM JST - 22nd August

I heard this ludicrous old clown is coming to Kashiwa tomorrow. I promise you this - he'll be looking up the business end of a saxon salute if I spot him. There shall be mooning.
BurakuminDes at 01:03 AM JST - 23rd August

You do that Ivan! I hear there's a full moon tomorrow! Throw the ugly geriatric a sieg heil as well, that's pretty fitting for his political leanings.
DenDon at 02:05 AM JST - 23rd August

I heard this ludicrous old clown is coming to Kashiwa tomorrow

I'll see you outside SOGO then. by the BIC camera entrance eh W
SiouxGirl at 03:53 AM JST - 23rd August

So, are the Japanese politicians like the U.S. politicians - we only hear from them/see them when elections roll around again?
Simon_Foston at 07:26 AM JST - 23rd August

Simon - Hatoyama hasn't had to drive himself anywhere since before he was conceived either. Amazing huh?

I haven't seen Hatoyama in any dumb photo ops like this one, though.
chotto at 09:17 AM JST - 25th August

"...so there I was on a crowded train, and I went to push the stop button like this, but it turned out to be something else."