Japanese Obamas Yet to Dance and Sing
The recent blog postings of Japanese Diet members are as follows:
HIDENAO NAKAGAWA (The Liberal Democratic Party)
Mr. Nakagawa is still a focus of the media though he has been kept out of the center of power since he resigned as the LDP Secretary-General when the LDP lost the Upper House election in the summer of 2007.
The veteran lawmaker recently wrote that the leaders of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan should stop using the argument about Japan’s possible participation in ground battles in Afghanistan as a means to tighten their control over other members of their Party. DPJ lawmakers seem to get their loyalty to the Party tested as their leaders have launched a policy line to have Japan's Self-Defense Force take a more active role in Afghanistan.
Indeed, the Democratic Party of Japan seems to become more intolerant while the LDP becomes so incoherent.
( http://www.nakagawahidenao.jp/pc/modules/wordpress0/index.php?p=1113 )
CHUKOU HAYAKAWA (The Liberal Democratic Party)
Mr. Hayakawa wrote that he has discovered the power of wisdom being intensified and expanded by many viewers of his blog.
He called it “group wisdom”. The member of the Lower House of the Diet seems to be happy to have many new friends through his blog.
Mr. Hayakawa thinks that to make the blog-based discussion fruitful you have to be humble and polite while bravely pointing at an error in other’s opinion.
(http://ameblo.jp/gusya-h/entry-10167430918.html )
YASUKO KOMIYAMA (The Democratic Party of Japan)
Ms. Komiyama posted her pictures appealing to citizens and commuters at an entrance to a railroad station in her constituency in Saitama Prefecture, just north of Tokyo.
They show a typical state of daily activities of a member of an assembly in Japan who wants to be reelected or get more votes in next election.
(http://www.yasko.net/2008/11/post_575.html )
HIROSHI OGUSHI (The Democratic Party of Japan)
Mr. Ogushi, an ex-bureaucrat of the Finance Ministry, recently wrote in his blog that the global financial market can sometimes suffer a big tsunami as the world is now observing. Such a financial tsunami can be extremely big, but it will neither last long nor be remembered for years.
Even the status of the dollar as the key currency in the global trade will not change, he figures. The challenge the French President has posed against the dollar will not be successful.
He may be right or wrong; yet it is important for a Parliament member to express his opinion on the financial crisis once in a century so unequivocally as to be qualified as a legislator.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/hiroshi_fromsaga/archives/51684443.html
SATSUKI KATAYAMA (The Liberal Democratic Party)
Ms. Satsuki Katayama, an ex-bureaucrat of the Finance Ministry, confessed in her blog that her mother fell in a critical condition, but now she is recovering from a chasm of death as a kind of miracle.
She happily put down that she got encouragement from disabled persons whose assembly she joined.
Ms. Satsuki Katayama, as an expert, has judged that the outcome of G20 Conference held in Washington D.C. can be valued, though promotion of domestic demand is not so easy.
( http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/katayamasathuki2007/20055835.html )
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That is all for today.
But, ex-state-minister Mr. Katsuhiko Shirakawa has criticized the Aso cabinet: "They look like a captain of a ship who loves his new uniform so much that he continues to pose at the helm smugly while the ship is about to strike on a rock."
( http://www.liberal-shirakawa.net/tsurezuregusa/index.php?itemid=830 )
Indeed the index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell below 8,000 yen and the one of NYSE below 8,000 dollars.
Yet, I am optimistic, since I have hope.
(Ah, what a week it was, dear!)
Mar 11:33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.