This morning, or an hour before, that is around 10 a.m. of Japan Time, a news flash was delivered through a TV channel, informing the audience that former Finance Minister of Japan Mr. Shoichi Nakagawa was found dead at home in Tokyo, the cause of which is yet to be identified according to the police (seemingly no criminal act involved).
Half an hour before I heard this news report, some heaped books in my room suddenly collapsed.
So, I wondered why it happened with some alarming sound. Then, I saw a telop running on the TV screen, telling the tragedy of the former finance minister who had resigned this February due to his mistake on the G7 meeting in Italy.
Mr. Shoichi Nakagawa failed in the 8/30/2009 general election to be reelected as Lower House lawmaker.
So, people in Japan should be shockingly sorry for this tragedy, since Mr. Shoichi Nakagawa has been one of the most prominent LDP politicians.
(http://www.nakagawa-shoichi.jp/)
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The labor class accounts for about 60% of the population in Japan, though owners of micro enterprises (with five or less employees) and their family members working in family business are excluded from this class.
(http://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/Japanese/dlfiles/ronbun/018_Hashimoto_P.pdf)
The working class accounts for about 80% of the population in the U.S.
(http://home.igc.org/~itous/pj_us_situation1.html )
So, if 50% or more of labor class members in Japan had abstained from voting and 75% or more of non-labor class members had balloted for the LDP, Mr. Yukio Hatomaya's DPJ could not have won in the 8/30/2009 general election.
If 30 or more among every 80 working class members of the U.S. had joined the upper class constituting 20% of the population who would in large vote for Mr. John McCain, Mr. Barack Obama could not have won in the 2008 Presidential Election.