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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows after the upper house enacted a supplementary budget for fiscal 2012 by 117 votes to 116 on Tuesday. 

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  • 3

    SauloJpn

    "A victory is a victory, the score is the score!"

  • 4

    some14some

    Thank you for watching 1st episode of serial 'Abenomics !'

  • 0

    Ewan Huzarmy

    He'll be doing that same pose to apologise, soon enough.

  • 1

    globalwatcher

    Wow, it passed by just one vote.

  • 5

    Chuichi Hashimura

    Abe borrowed a lot of money ummm Japan would be deeply in debt!!

  • 3

    EngrHassanSabi

    I just hope the guy knows what he's doing and knows the consequences if he fails to boost the economy of Japan. Politicians have the fiercest critics.

  • 0

    BertieWooster

    The photo above shows Abe, doubled up in pain with an acute attack of the tummywobbles.

    Won't be long now!

  • 6

    smithinjapan

    Imagine if he did this for something that mattered.

  • 10

    Speed

    "Thank you for allowing me to bankrupt the country"

  • 5

    globalwatcher

    http://japanese.lingualift.com/blog/japanese-national-debt/

    As of May 2012, it was 960 trillion yen (somewhere around $12 trillion dollars!). The Finance Ministry says it will be a cool quadrillion by the end of the fiscal year.

    Please look at the graph why I am very concerned.

  • -1

    Disillusioned

    Head on the chopping block!

  • 2

    BertieWooster

    Very interesting link, Globalwatcher.

    A wakeup call, indeed.

    I wonder if it will filter through to Mr Abe. He doesn't exactly have much support, does he? One vote!

    What he needs to be doing is working out ways to get Japanese exports out in good time and at a price that Japan's customers wouldn't think of looking anywhere else.

    He could shave off several trillion yen by reducing the civil service to one tenth of its current number and cutting the defense and "protection money" to the US military.

    He could create good PR by visiting China, North and South Korea, setting up a charity for abused women to recompense for the "comfort women" abuse in Korea, the Philippines, etc.

    Building roads and tunnels is NOT going to do ANYTHING for the Japanese economy.

    If he wanted to build something, how about building a renewable energy infrastructure that would ease the financial burden on Japanese people in the future?

    Roads and tunnels will give NO return on investment.

  • 1

    Jaymann

    looks like the man forgot his reading glasses... Honestly, this country needs some decent political satire!

  • 1

    BertieWooster

    Jaymann,

    Couldn't agree more!

    Japan is WAY too serious about politics.

    I wish there were TV programs like "Yes Minister," or "Spitting Image."

    There is no satire here.

    The closest they come to it is the thinly disguised carping criticism of Beat Takeshi.

  • 0

    sf2k

    I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

  • 1

    Serrano

    Nice bow.

  • -1

    avigator

    Well, if something you can do is resume the construction of the Yamba Dam. Why? there is no guarantee that every year will be a rainy one. Too much water? Then let it run before it overflows.

  • 1

    Fadamor

    The caption is wrong. It needs to say, "I'd like to thank the mombas-MEMBERS of the udder-UPPER House for approving this moat-VOTE! (sheesh! I need a new eyeglass prescription!)

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