Finance Ministry alters Nakagawa's slurred performance on website

Wednesday 18th February, 04:19 PM JST

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Molenir at 05:51 PM JST - 18th February

He got treated so harshly because he was wasted at the freakin' G7 during the worst economic crisis of the last 50 years...during the boom times a couple of years back people might have laughed it off.

Well, last 30 years anyway, 50 years is stretching it. Though now that the "stimulus" has passed, Might have to change that to the last 80 years. We'll see.

Whats sad is that they feel the need to rewrite what he said, rather then just leaving it as is.
herefornow at 06:44 PM JST - 18th February

And numerous posters here take NK and China to task when they censor things. Guess the shoe is on the other foot now. Just a "normal response" according to the Ministry.
medievaltimes at 06:52 PM JST - 18th February

Japan is good at re-writing history.
Bento at 06:56 PM JST - 18th February

It appears to be a cultural norm..polishing the dirt out of history's patina. However in this instance the correct financial information/policy needs to be shown on the ministry's website.
FrEcKlEfAcE at 07:12 PM JST - 18th February

The flaky fakeness knows no bounds here in Japan.
some14some at 07:27 PM JST - 18th February

"Domestic Deletion" won't undo International Media Record.
ThonTaddeo at 09:19 PM JST - 18th February

Anybody remember former Dodgers infielder Pedro Guerrero complaining about how the press would misquote him all the time? "The problem with (the media) is that they write what I say and not what I mean!"

Nakagawa, having the press in his pocket like other government officials, can say the opposite: "Fortunately, they write what I mean and not what I say."
Triple888 at 09:41 PM JST - 18th February

This story is the funniest thing in the WORLD news for the past few days! I know because I'm from Europe!
gogogo at 10:14 PM JST - 18th February

wait wait wait wait... did they change the words on the website to what he said or changed the words from what he said to something else?
kanadamanada at 11:20 PM JST - 18th February

Just more rewriting of history... Nothing new.
mushroomcloud at 12:20 AM JST - 19th February

"The god of economy is wicked. At a time when the nation is facing its worst postwar financial crisis, it is led by a gaffe-prone prime minister and a finance minister with slurred speech.

With the finance minister's disgraceful behavior seen around the world, the Japanese people are feeling far more embarrassed than the minister himself."

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200902180055.html
jam_sandwich at 05:50 AM JST - 19th February

Hilarious, I would expect something of this nature from Russian politics, but not Japan. Showing up drunk to a G7 meeting, during an economic crisis, somebody's not taking their job seriously.
jam_sandwich at 05:51 AM JST - 19th February

Although, had he been stoned it would of caused shockwaves through Japan.
medievaltimes at 10:50 PM JST - 19th February

This is the same guy that once said:

"Women have their proper place: they should be womanly...They have their own abilities and these should be fully exercised, for example in flower arranging, sewing, or cooking. It's not a matter of good or bad, but we need to accept reality that men and women are genetically different"

I wonder if they "altered" these words too.
usaexpat at 12:37 AM JST - 20th February

They could have just overdubbed him I guess. What is the point in this exercise anyway? The cat's out of the bag, Nakagawa was drunk as a skunk.