Sunday May 27, 2012

Friendly rivals

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Democratic Party of Japan powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, left, makes a speech during a campaign Saturday for the DPJ leadership election while rival Prime Minister Naoto Kan looks on.

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    paulinusa

    Two microphones=doubletalk

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    smartacus

    Strange how they campaign together. They are supposed to be rivals.

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    some14some

    Kan looks like a security guard.

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    Sarge

    Why doesn't Ozawa do CoolBiz?

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    XXXXX

    couldnt they do something about the teruterubozu-looking mikes? so rustic. ran out of foam covers, it seems

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    XXXXX

    oh no, theyve put it on top of the foams!

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    Judderman

    hands up who wants sprinkles on their ice-cream cone.

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    Judderman

    come to think of it..they look like father and son!

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    tigerguy

    'I promise you that everything that I say is utter BS and lies'.

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    Lunchbox

    He stole that hand bopping gesture from Slim Shady. (Cue 8 mile battle-scene soundtrack).

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    Lunchbox

    Journalist: Ozawa, when are you gonna speak up about the political funds allegations?

    Ozawa: Talk to the haaand .

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    herefornow

    How do you know when Ozawa is lying? Simple, his lips are moving.

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    tigerguy

    herefornow - I quess that applies to all Japanese politicians

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    BurakuminDes

    I predict Ozawa is gonna be bumped off by the yaks in a "payback" before the election is contested...you read it here first.

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    Weasel

    Almost could pass for a backwoods southern priest - testify!

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    crazygaijin

    IDIOT

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    presto345

    Why doesn't Ozawa do CoolBiz?

    Perhaps he thinks he has an advantage dressed formally. Old habits die hard.

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    alladin

    Kan loos way too confident. I guess he is just sitting by to let Ozawa put the shoe in his mouth to stink up the community with his empty words and fake promises.

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    apecNetworks

    To BurakuminDes,

    "I predict Ozawa is gonna be bumped off by the yaks in a "payback" before the election is contested...you read it here first."

    Are you a US citizen? If you are, you are the second American that mentioned a "political assassination" of former Sec Gen Ozawa. Are the US Bases on Okinawa that important?

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    apecNetworks

    The tone of some of the posts connotes "desperateness?".

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    apecNetworks

    That would explain more clearly why Def. Sec. Gates lost his "cool".

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    apecNetworks

    I don't want to hog this thread, but I can give some insight into Japanese politics. Around the time former PM Hatoyama took office,, someone in Japan came to the US West Coast, and had to give me info on former FM Kawaguchi, who was pivotal in the Koizumi Cabinet in negotiating the 2006 US Base Agreement. Futenma is like, the Twilight Zone.

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    BurakuminDes

    Are you a US citizen?

    Absolutely not, apecNetworks! But I suspect Ozawa will be bumped by Japanese not gaijin - he has many, many enemies in Japan.

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