Simon_Foston said...

Simon_Foston at 08:56 AM JST - 12th April

I bet there won't be any talk of amakudari, pork barrel public works, LDP factions' backroom deals or the rural/urban voting disparity. But I'm sure they'll manage to work in the usual mix of cute kids, melodramatic shouting and rousing speeches set to "stirring" background music that's usually so loud…

Posted in Kimutaku to be prime minister in new drama at 08:56 AM JST - 12th April
Simon_Foston at 11:45 PM JST - 10th April

Northlondon, there seems to be nothing at all like the system in the UK, where typically young actors might do a few school plays and amateur drama before going to drama school for three or four years. It just seems that talent scouts find these people somehow and propel them…

Posted in From Cutie Honey to sexy nurse at 11:45 PM JST - 10th April
Simon_Foston at 10:14 AM JST - 10th April

"On the BOJ personnel, I have been at the mercy of the DPJ"

Any prime minister saying anything like that in the UK would be facing party leadership challenges if he wasn't already on the way to Buckingham Palace to tell the Queen he was resigning.

Posted in Fukuda vents irritation at DPJ chief Ozawa at 10:14 AM JST - 10th April
Simon_Foston at 02:18 AM JST - 7th April

If everyone involved with Johnny's Jimusho just disappeared and was never heard from again I wouldn't be at all upset.

Posted in Which celebrities are you sick and tired of reading or hearing about? at 02:18 AM JST - 7th April