Funny about that. People have commented for the last year, how if you wanted a real perspective on events in America, you had to buy your newspapers in Fleet Street. Or now, the Ginza, I suppose.
Has Obama got 'round to dissing the Mikado yet? Japan has been waaaaay too friendly to the U.S. to be a Friend of Barack. The Japanese ought to put an army on Midway. Then Zero would be happy to talk to them.
North Korea launched a Taepodong-II intercontinental ballistic missile right straight over Japanese territory in the Tohoku region several hundred miles North of Tokyo, toward Hawaii for pete sake. Obama slept right through it (or was playing basketball or masturbating or something, who knows?) and did not have the decency to consult ASAP with the Japanese Prime Minister at the time here, nor did he nor his State Department and NSC team have any particular response nor effective action and condemnation of the DPRK for such an act.
That alone shook a LOT of average, grassroots Japanese out of their induced slumber regarding "The Messiah" which their own media (very liberal in many quarters) had engineered. Total, complete, nonstop, non-critical 24/7 coverage of Obama in Japan...that changed dramatically with that one North Korean missile shot.