(Japan at Red Sunset)MISTRESS, LAWMAKERS, PRESIDENTS, AND COURT
In the late-night TV news program in Japan, they briefly reported on the official visit of the Crown Prince of Japan to Spain.
Nonetheless, "His wife, Crown Princess Masako, is not accompanying him on the trip, which ends July 22."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080717/wl_asia_afp/spainjapanroyals
Yet, respectfully, you must not associate the Japan’s case with the British one.
SECTION 1: QUALITY OF JAPANESE POLITICIANS
1-1. Mr. Hisayasu Nagata
It is a little surprise that English Wikipedia has an entry for Mr. Hisayasu Nagata, a former Japanese national lawmaker who resigned a few years ago taking responsibility for falsely or mistakenly accusing one of prominent politicians highly associated with the then Prime Minister Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi of having accepted unethical funds, though indirectly, from the notorious Livedoor corporation.
The accusation Mr. Nagata made against the politician of the Liberal Democratic Party was soon found to be groundless, since he solely relied on an e-mail as a proof of the unethical funding which disappointingly turned out to be a very sad fake.
Mr. Nagata graduated from University of Tokyo, the so-called top university in Japan, and was employed by the Finance Ministry, the so-called top ministry in Japan, in 1993 as an elite official; he then ran for a national election successfully in 2000.
Despite his talent and ability in academic performance in school, he could not prove his common sense and ordinary morals of life in his career at the national legislative assembly of Japan (called the Diet).
His acting the fool on a big stage, being televised nationwide from the Diet, really harmed the reputation of the Democratic Party of Japan he belonged to, as I wrote in EEE Reporter when this incident happened.
This incident actually led to a regime change in the largest opposition party in Japan, forcing the then young and nationalistic head of the Party to resign, which however widened a chance for the Party to win in the subsequent national election held in the last summer. Consequently, the Democratic Party of Japan now enjoys a majority in the Upper House of the Diet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisayasu_Nagata
1-2. Ms. Satsuki Katayama
It is a matter of course that English Wikipedia has an entry for Ms. Satsuki Katayama, one of prominent national lawmakers of Japan.
She graduated from University of Tokyo, the so-called top university in Japan, and was employed by the Finance Ministry, the so-called top ministry in Japan, in 1982 as an elite official.
Though an amount of descriptions about Ms. Satsuki Katayama in Wikipedia is less than those about Mr. Nagata and their careers look alike somehow, the past performance of Ms. Satsuki Katayama as an elite bureaucrat far surpasses that of Mr. Nagata. In short, Ms. Satsuki Katayama was two or three ranks above Mr. Nagata in the Finance Ministry, though she entered the political arena only in 2005 as the then Prime Minister Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi strongly asked her to run for the General Election.
Since she was elected as a national lawmaker, she made many appearances on TV and other media to be one of the most popular female politicians in Japan.
Nonetheless she has recently faced a test of her common sense and ordinary morals of life.
It is because some female voters in her constituency were under a strong influence of a certain person very unfriendly to her.
Ms. Satsuki Katayama claimed that she found that the very person was a mistress or a concubine of a deceased, former national lawmaker in an adjacent constituency whose son succeeded him as a national lawmaker of the same Liberal Democratic Party.
So, a persistent battle erupted between Ms. Satsuki Katayama and the alleged mistress, since the son of the deceased, former national lawmaker had allowed the mistress to officially refer to herself using the surname of his family.
The issue is, of course, whether the personal information about the alleged mistress Ms. Satsuki Katayama obtained was true and correct.
Ms. Satsuki Katayama crucially relied on the information in her fight against the female old dominant figure in a local city, in order to gain control of political activities of female voters in her own constituency including part of the local city.
But, one thing true is that a mistress of a politician should not have a political influence on voters in any countries in any time, since a politician has a duty to make a law which must protect a right of a wife against a mistress.
SECTION 2: QUALITY OF US PRESIDENTS
From some examples of Japanese politicians, it is apparent that quality of politicians can be measured by the handling of information, money, and a mistress.
Put candidly, if Mr. Bill Clinton had been excellent in the above-stated terms, his administration could have effectively taken measures against AlQaeda so as to prevent the 9/11 Terror successfully.
Further, Mrs. Clinton could have been nominated as the official Democrat candidate for the 2008 Presidential Election.
Put candidly, too, if JFK and Lyndon Johnson had been excellent in the above-stated terms, their administrations could have effectively taken measures against Asian communists so as to prevent the Vietnam War successfully.
Conversely, as Mr. Jimmy Carter and Mr. Al Gore are probably excellent in the above-stated terms, they were awarded a Nobel Prize each, though their political influence in the U.S. does not look so dominant at all.
SECTION 3: QUALITY OF ROYAL FAMILIES
The death of Princess Diana tells everything about the quality of the British Royal family.
The quality of Imperial Family of Japan is of course on shoulders of His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince and Her Imperial Highness the Crown Princess.
And, no Japanese citizens today living under the Constitution influenced by Christianity, though covertly, would accept a case similar to the one involving Princess Diana who suffered from existence of a mistress of her husband, a son of Queen Elizabeth.
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That is all for today.
Check existence of a mistress before you vote for any US Presidential candidate.
And, you also know why democracy must prevail in the Middle East, not only because many terrorists were from Saudi Arabia in September 2001.
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Rev 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.