New cabinet launched; PM pledges to tackle oil prices, pension issue

Sunday 03rd August, 03:56 AM JST

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teaabe at 02:55 PM JST - 2nd August

same old spin. yawn.
hermitage at 03:13 PM JST - 2nd August

A farce without audience. A reshuffle for the sake of LDP. Isn't it?
zurcronium at 04:26 PM JST - 2nd August

Abe had beautiful Japan, and now Fukuda piece of mind. They both sound like commercials for methol smokes. What is next, LDP, cool refreshing?

What a bunch of losers and hacks.
Sarge at 04:31 PM JST - 2nd August

zurcronium - Har! But seriously, what would you have Fukuda call his cabinet? "The Worst Yet"? Tee hee!
RomeoRamenII at 05:02 PM JST - 2nd August

Fukuda called his first Cabinet "The Do or Die Cabinet".

Guess we all now know how that one turned out.

RR
hermitage at 05:22 PM JST - 2nd August

Please put beautiful things in the cabinet.
LIBERTAS at 06:37 PM JST - 2nd August

Respectfully Mr. Fukuda, your choices for both the LDP executives and the Cabinet this time reflect your retreat into the idealistic way you would once have hoped Japan could be. It never was, and it cannot be with this line-up. Mr. Taro (the) Aso, as he is known abroad is a radical right wing nut job whose goal is a re-armed Imperial Japanese Military, and who takes great pleasure poking fun at China in public every chance he gets. Bad choice which has set Japan back to pre-Mori days. Mr. Sasakawa as the other LDP executive shows exactly where your priorities lie. He is the son of a mafia Don, famed for his setting up the boat-race system, and who ran numbers, protection and prostitution. I hope this is not a funding option for your party now? Cabinet-wise, I erred yesterday in my misunderstanding of the appointment of Mr. Ibuki to the Foreign Ministry. Fortunately you kept Komura. But your appointment of Ms. Noda shows your complete and total disdain for the essential (all be it eccentric) reforms undertaken by your predecessor Mr. Koizumi. Your clear message is that the reformed to postal bank privatization is one you disagreed with. You would prefer that unelected public servant have unaccountable access to these funds to channel to shady corporations bidding in "dango" competitions for unneeded, fraudulent, wasteful and useless public works projects. In effect, dirty money, back-room politics have returned to the mainstream. You have most certainly and egregiously erred in naming this ship of fools as "the cabinet for realizing peace of mind." You have confirmed the international community's worst fears. You have begun the recrudescence of Japanese chauvinism and isolation, when this country can least afford it, and the people most definitely do not want it. "From now on, I will accelerate reforms from the viewpoint of the people by steadily carrying out each policy under the reshuffled Cabinet." Meaningless, untruthful and deceitful words all. You and your cronies exist only to line your own pockets. The people be damned! Shame on you. sir!
lipscombe at 07:16 PM JST - 2nd August

Libertas, well said sir, well said
thepro at 06:03 AM JST - 3rd August

Gonna tackle oil prices? Take the gasoline tax back off. Raise tobacco tax.
some14some at 07:44 AM JST - 3rd August

is it tackle or 'tickle', on world market, oil prices are going down but in japan they are going further up, no progress on pension issue despite govt's repeated assurances for early resolution.
zurcronium at 08:48 AM JST - 3rd August

Seriously, the LDP stopped growing in the mid-70s when Tanaka introduced money politics to Japan. Anything now would be an improvement.
medievaltimes at 09:04 AM JST - 3rd August

Japanese politics are stagnant. And the Japanese public dont demand change.
smithinjapan at 11:50 AM JST - 3rd August

So in other words Fukuda pledges to do the exact same thing he pledged to do before, save that things got worse, and now he has a bunch of people who have proven corrupt in the past to make it more so. Japanese politics holds ZERO promise, and worse yet, there is no hope of getting out of that in the distant future, let alone the near.
presto345 at 05:33 PM JST - 3rd August

Japanese politics are stagnant. And the Japanese public dont demand change.

So you don't need to worry about that.

So in other words Fukuda pledges to do the exact same thing he pledged to do before, save that things got worse, and now he has a bunch of people who have proven corrupt in the past to make it more so. Japanese politics holds ZERO promise, and worse yet, there is no hope of getting out of that in the distant future, let alone the near.

So what it is it you suggest or wish to contribute, I wonder? Perhaps you wanted to give an example where politics did hold an ZERO +++ promise? I'd love to see it.
medievaltimes at 08:25 AM JST - 4th August

presto - Im not woried. Obviously Japan has to take care of itself. I am suprised and disappointed that a modern country such as Japan would have such a stagnant political system, and such a passive public. I guess if I were to be a politician, I would want to be one in Japan. I could do anything I want with very few consequences.