(CLICK TO ENLARGE)(If you had pictures of the World Trade Center having been taken on Sept 10, 2001, or pictures of Hiroshima having been taken on the day before the nuclear-atom bomb attack, namely August 7, 1945, you should think that they worth one million dollars!)
(If each ballot paper is worth one million dollars, it is total ten-thousand trillion yen or 100 trillion dollars for the Japanese general election with 100 million voters, since 100 million times one millions dollars is 100 trillion dollars.)
OK, now I am going out for voting to exercise my one-million dollar right, since today August 30, 2009, is the Japanese general election day to choose 480 new Japanese Obamas. [at 12:10 p.m.]
My voting is a very fair voting, to be democratic, imperial, and holy.
For Your Reference [2:45 p.m., Japan Time]:
"NY TIMES - Japan Prepares for a Change as Voting Begins"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/world/asia/30japan.html?_r=1&hp
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Appendix: Approval Ratings for 2 Major Japanese Parties
Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso's conservative LDP has been enjoying a stable support base, while Mr. Yukio Hatoyama's liberal DPJ seems to be steadily acquiring new supporters.
......+........June.....+.....July.....+.....August of 2009
LDP...........18.4%....15.1%......17.1%
DPJ...........15.5%....18.6%......18.4%
No answers....58.1%....55.7%......53.0%
(http://www.jiji.com/jc/v?p=ve_pol_politics-support-pgraph)
For compariosn with the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election:
........+.........+..........Popular vote......Percentage
John McCain........59,934,814.....45.7%
Barack Obama.....69,456,897.....52.9%
In summary, only the fear of losing pensions 70% of the Japanese people might have can explain the forecast by all the Japanese media that the DPJ will win overwhelmingly.
Anyway, polling stations will be closed at 8:00 p.m. of today, Japan Time.
[6:00 p.m., Japan Time ]