[Tamar1973]

The Yomiuri Online Japan website even refers to this book as telling a story in Obama's home town area, and theorizing if this kind of system is what is in store for America in a larger sense.

Then why have the Japanese been so enamored with Obama up to this point?

[AmericanInTokyo]

boom, fad, bandwagon, and the media told them to think that way

[AmericanInTokyo]

Here is some insight about Obama's popularity in Japan (up until recently, where his star is now fading fast it seems), from The Economist, in March of 1988 (but still relavant today):

"THE word in Japanese for a new craze is buumu, like the English word boom. Buumus sell things. The tango, foreign foods and travel fads have all done well. But the widespread craze for nostalgia, known as retro-buumu, may turn out to be the most successful buumu of all. Young Japanese have been looking at their country's past, and deciding that they like it. Traditional clothes, food and culture are getting their nod. The young are writing haiku poems, just as their grandparents (but not their parents) did. A limited edition of Nissan's Be-1 car, which looks as if it ..."

Another explanation (mine) would be, who in their right mind could get EXCITED over John McCain!? He had to be one of the WORST candidates the GOP has ever run for president.....