(Around Tokyo)
Japanese Obamas?
The Empire of Japan annexed Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. Today, Taiwan is one of the friendliest nations for Japan, since the Empire of Japan gave to Taiwan as much as it took during its governance of the insular territory no Chinese dynasties had ever ocuupied so legitimately.
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TAIPEI: Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian was arrested yesterday as prosecutors sought to detain him in connection with a long-running corruption probe.
…The former leader, who retired in May after eight years in power, is under investigation for allegedly embezzling $US480,000 ($720,000) from the government…
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24639321-2703,00.html
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This might be part of conspiracy but we have to respect the Taiwanese people. Claiming a conspiracy theory speculatively can be sometimes an insult to no-nonsense people involved and concerned.
Yet, I somehow worry about how the world would assume the state of politicians in Tokyo. It is well known that the world does not know Japan. The world does not know that Japan has been the largest financial contributor to the American economy and also the largest industrial contributor to China in these decades, though the world recognizes Japan as the number-one contributor to the global peace after World War II.
So, let’s check what national lawmakers in Tokyo are writing and posting into their blogs:
- Yasuhisa Shiozaki (Liberal Democratic Party)
Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Mr. Shiozaki wrote that he found many old friends among 17 leading and influential members of the transition team Mr. Obama chose to prepare his own administration. Japan’s Diet member Mr. Shiozaki especially recalled that he had been exhaustively trained by Professor Robert Reich at Harvard. Mr. Shiozaki suggested that the world will need the global version of New Deal.
( http://www.y-shiozaki.or.jp/oneself/index.php )
- Katsuya Okada (Democratic Party of Japan)
One of leaders of the largest opposition, Democratic Party of Japan, Mr. Okada wrote in his blog that it was in 2004 that he first saw Mr. Barack Obama. Mr. Okada heard Mr. Obama addressing powerfully to the audience in the Democratic convention stressing that “there is neither white America nor black America, but America is one.” Mr. Okada was also impressed by Mr. Obama’s recent victory speech, since the President-elect focused on the two types of wars: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on the global warming.
(http://katsuya.weblogs.jp/blog/2008/11/post-5935.html#comments )
- Taro Kono (Liberal Democratic Party)
There are many second-generation Diet members in Japan. Mr. Taro Kono is one of them, since his father is the incumbent Lower House Speaker. Mr. Kono wrote in the blog version of his mail-magazine that he recently heard officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find no reasonable policies and priorities in their ODA business. The national lawmaker emphasized that though Japan is now ranked as the fifth in terms of the amount of ODA, it is still No. 3 in the world if assessed on the gross of its international aid with repayment for yen loans excluded. Japanese bureaucrats are simply building up a network of connections between foreign governmental officials for their own convenience and advantage, Mr. Kono bitterly pointed at.
http://www.taro.org/blog/index.php/archives/944
- Yasuko Komiyama (Democratic Party of Japan)
Ms. Komiyama is also a second-generation Diet member. She was recently very much pleased as the Seibu Lions won in the Japan Series of professional baseball by defeating the Yomiuri Giants, since her electoral district is near the home ground of the Seibu Lions. Ms. Komiyama, a member of the House of Representatives (Lower House) of the Diet, claimed an early dissolution of the Lower House, since many disabled people are requesting it in expectation of a regime change.
http://www.yasko.net/
- Hiroshige Seko (Liberal Democratic Party)
Mr. Seko is one of experts of IT and publicity in the national Diet, though he is a member of the House of Councilors. He recently attended Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso’s preparation for Internet video-appearance and automatic messaging. (Though the Japanese Prime Minister is one of rare experts of the Manga or comic culture in the Diet, he may still need to cultivate good taste on the hi-tech media so as to understand younger generations.) According to his blog, Mr. Seko is always busy into the night, meeting other politicians, media reporters, critics and journalists, and IT experts.
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/newseko
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Anyway, I don’t think that any of forward-looking Japanese politicians will be involved in an unlawful transaction of money, such as $US480,000 Taiwan's former president is facing charge for.
And in Beijing, there is no such an open and public system to check any doubtful money transactions by politicians, since everything is controlled by the despotic Communist Party.
(That must be why some American elite are going to bid a big welcome to 100 or so Chinese delegates expected to come soon to Washington D.C. for the 20-nation financial conference.)
Japan is as democratic as the United States of America is, though there is less possibility for an African Japanese to be elected as prime minister, since there are probably only hundreds or so African Japanese among the 120 million population.
(Once they were freely smoking in the Diet building. Today even Prime Minister Mr. Aso does not smoke in a Diet session. Japan’s Parliament really changed when smoking was banned inside the building. Jesus Christ never smokes; but you may find me like a heathen buying some at 320 yen, good or bad.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/popular/smokegets.html )
Mar 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
Mar 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Mar 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.