JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Simon_Foston
I wouldn't call the endorsement of a bunch of half-senile yokels good news. However, it's no bad thing if this serves to remind people that if they want someone to blame for this prize idiot becoming Prime Minister, they need look no further than their local LDP chapters and representatives.
Posted in: Opposition steps up pressure on Aso to resign
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Simon_Foston
The current situation highlights a more fundamental problem. The Japanese political system allows for a bicameral legislature in which one house is only really more powerful than the other while its biggest party has a two thirds majority. This isn't really a problem when the same party has majorities in both houses, of course, but that's not the situation at the moment and there's no way the LDP are going to control two thirds of the lower house even if they do manage a win in the next election. So there's more chaos on the way unless the DPJ win outright. Having said all that, a directly elected Prime Minister could be someone with the power to break ties, so it's not a bad idea.
Posted in: Would you like to see Taro Aso replaced as Japan's prime minister, and if so, who do you think would do a better job?
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Simon_Foston
We need someone who has a coherent idea how to run a country properly and solve its problems. If I need to laugh at something I'll rent a comedy DVD. As matters stand I do not think any of the legislators who might be contenders for the PM's job have any commitment to making the changes that Japan needs as they seem to be completely blind to the country's most fundamental problems.
Posted in: Would you like to see Taro Aso replaced as Japan's prime minister, and if so, who do you think would do a better job?
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Simon_Foston
The sad thing is that as blundering, incompetent and drunk as Nakagawa may be, he's probably doing no worse a job than all those other finance ministers. He should still be fired though.
Posted in: Finance minister under fire for sloppy behavior at G-7 meeting
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Simon_Foston
Really? Why? That's what the parties that aren't in power do all the time. It's why they're called the opposition. Anyway, the Aso adminstration is doing a good enough job destablising itself without any help from the DPJ, and the sooner they're gone the better.
But anyway, Aso is never going to apologise for his family's actions in WW2. Apart from any other consideration, there's no way the LDP would want to antagonise all those war veterans' associations and right-wingers whose support they feel they need.
Posted in: Lawmaker demands Aso apologize over his family's use of POW labor
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Simon_Foston
I find it nauseating that Japanese youth are duped into thinking these useless, effeminate posers are fashionable and attractive.
Posted in: KAT-TUN to hold concerts on 7 straight nights at Tokyo Dome
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Simon_Foston
In terms of popular entertainment the rest of the world has more taste. For sheer awfulness the Japanese entertainment industry takes the worst other countries have to offer and beats it hands down.
Posted in: DJ OZMA drops his pants one last time for final show
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Simon_Foston
On the NHK news last night it was reported that the opposition proposed dissolving the lower house for a general election. They were voted down, of course, but one LDP lawmaker, Yoshimi Watanabe, voted on their side. I'm wondering if we'll hear more about this.
Posted in: Aso says he is not planning snap election
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Simon_Foston
I don't understand the popularity of these "tokusatsu" shows like Kamen Rider and Ultraman. While SF TV shows in the US and UK have been moving forward in leaps and bounds, these things still feature people in tacky superhero outfits and daft monster costumes jumping about on top of Tokyo office buildings pretending to hit each other and growling or shouting portentously. The genre seems to be stuck in the 1960s, except that even old 60s black and white episodes of Doctor Who look good by comparison.
Posted in: Gackt to perform theme song for new 'Kamen Rider' show
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Simon_Foston
They'd be better off introducing moral education classes for parents, teachers, businessmen, bureaucrats and LDP members.
Posted in: Gov't to boost moral education for young people
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Simon_Foston
Right, there was Nazi Germany and fascist Italy as well. Real quality allies to have in a war, don't you think?
Posted in: Sacked Japan air force head defends WWII actions
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Simon_Foston
Care to elaborate on which criticisms you think they are?
Posted in: Sacked Japan air force head defends WWII actions
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Simon_Foston
As for the diplomacy books, everyone knows it's just for show because Aso won't be able to read any of the kanji in them.
Posted in: Aso buys books on diplomacy, but no comics
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Simon_Foston
Quite clearly he IS very dumb, otherwise he wouldn't have jumped at the chance to come PM when it was obvious (I think) that Fukuda was jumping ship to avoid being the man who led the LDP to election wipe-out. I think he was smart enough to realise that nothing anyone in the LDP can do will win them enough support to maintain controlling majorities in the Diet. Aso clearly is not, and people are starting to realise it - latest opinion polls show he has something like 31% support, down from 48% just last month.
Posted in: Aso buys books on diplomacy, but no comics
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Simon_Foston
Still 10,000 too many.
Posted in: Japan should acknowledge sex slaves' pain: British MPs
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Simon_Foston
I can see why Aso picked this one to be Finance Minister. Right wing, loudmouthed, deluded and thick. Obviously a shameless brown-noser as well. What's not to like?
Posted in: Finance minister says financial crisis mainly U.S. fault
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Simon_Foston
So Daigo is a nail queen. I suppose this is what happens when a man like Johnny Kitagawa runs the entertainment industry over here.
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Simon_Foston
Someone who thinks that whole neighbourhoods filled with mom and pop shops are still financially viable has no business telling the rest of the world how to fix the global economy.
Posted in: Aso wants Japan to take lead in creating new global financial order
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Simon_Foston
That look and variations of it have been in vogue here for the past few years now. But the nails? That's a new development.
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Simon_Foston
No he doesn't, if he isn't working late or attending a function in an official capacity. I see journalists here are just as prone to opening their mouths without turning their brains on first as politicians.
Posted in: Aso evasive about his schedule