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Japan PM aide hits out at slight(Wapo calls Hatoyama hapless and loopy)
Strait Times ^
| 04/15/10
Posted on 04/15/2010 7:02:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Apr 15, 2010
Japan PM aide hits out at slight
TOKYO - YUKIO Hatoyama's top aide on Thursday criticised a US newspaper column which labelled the Japanese premier the 'biggest loser' at a major nuclear summit hosted by US President Barack Obama.
'It seems somewhat impolite as an expression addressing the top leader of a country,' Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano told a regular briefing, referring to the column published in The Washington Post on Wednesday. The Washington Post article was highlighted by Japanese media on Thursday.
Hatoyama, whose approval rating has slipped below 30 per cent in some polls at home, failed to have a formal one-on-one meeting with Obama on the sidelines of the 47-nation summit in the US capital this week.
'By far the biggest loser of the extravaganza was the hapless and (in the opinion of some Obama administration officials) increasingly loopy Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,' the column said. 'The only consolation prize was that he got an "unofficial" meeting during Monday night's working dinner. Maybe somewhere between the main course and dessert?' Conversely, it said Chinese President Hu Jintao headed the list of 'winners' who managed to have formal talks with Obama. They also included King Abdullah II of Jordan and Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia.
(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatoyama; japan; nukesummit; obama; wapo
Hapless and loopy one in SK, Roh Moo-hyun, is dead, while two clones sprang up in Japan and U.S. Both are hapless and loopy, but they failed to get along. Hatoyama panders to his liberal base, which has a beef with U.S. bases. Zero panders to unions whose beef are Japanese automobiles.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Stand down, Japan. I’m sure the Post will say the same about Obama when his approval hits 30%.....
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:05:48 AM PDT
by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
The boy Prime Minister of Japan is apparently losing direction lately. He must be searching for any issue, liberal or conservative, which can rekindle his support.
When it comes to being loopy, one cannot exclude his coalition partner, Social Democratic Party. There are certifiable loopy characters in that party.
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:07:18 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Thats it in a nutshell, I would say. ;=)
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:15:59 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(2012 Prediction! Pres. Biden vs. Fmr. SOS Clinton....with Fmr. Pres. Obama still in mental rehab)
To: TigerLikesRooster
SDP is the WORST! Their Fukushima daihyo (party chairwoman) makes me sick each time I have seen her communist ass on the Sunday morning TV news shows. She sounds like a frikkin broken record over their Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. Almost as bad as the JCP. They all deserve to be shipped off to Pyongyang and live up there for a few years to get a taste of their own socialist medicine.
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:18:08 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(2012 Prediction! Pres. Biden vs. Fmr. SOS Clinton....with Fmr. Pres. Obama still in mental rehab)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They are apparantly going to get wallopped in the summer midterms it seems (Upper House elections). Problem is, many people dont like the corrupt, old guard LDP much more...but at least they are adults.
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:19:49 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(2012 Prediction! Pres. Biden vs. Fmr. SOS Clinton....with Fmr. Pres. Obama still in mental rehab)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Fukushima When I read an article on her, I have an impression that she could be the cross between Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem.:-)
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:27:42 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
While not a lesbian (to my knowledge) it is certain she is not satisfied with men or by men, and has a certain grudge against them in general. Certifiably insane. Says Japan has no right to defend themselves from a first strike Taepodong Missile upon downtown Tokyo obliterating it, because at the end of the day she is "uncompromising on the issue of Peace."
Idiots. Useful idiots is all I have to say. Thank goodness her party has something like only four or five seats on the Parliament.
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:52:40 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(2012 Prediction! Pres. Biden vs. Fmr. SOS Clinton....with Fmr. Pres. Obama still in mental rehab)
To: AmericanInTokyo
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:56:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: AmericanInTokyo; dfwgator
I miss Koizumi, but at this point, even the corpse of this butt pirate would be preferable to lead Japan:
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posted on
04/15/2010 7:59:42 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Clemenza
That looks like James Shigeta. Why would you call him a butt pirate?
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posted on
04/15/2010 9:06:28 AM PDT
by
SeaDragon
("Life is tough ..... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne)
To: SeaDragon
That would be Mishima, who was indeed a homosexual.
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posted on
04/15/2010 1:22:56 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Clemenza
Mishima was indeed gay, but to be fair(y), his lover was a kubuki actor who dressed up as a woman.
Mishima was a nationalist loon who committed ritual suicide when his attempted rebellion was laughed at by the people. I imagine seppuku hurts... alot.
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:33:21 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(There is no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat; just liberals who lie.)
To: Clemenza
Okay, not Shigeta. Who was Mishima?
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:34:26 PM PDT
by
SeaDragon
("Life is tough ..... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne)
To: SeaDragon; rmlew
Yukio Mishima was one of the greatest Japanese writers of the 20th century (see “Woman in the Dunes), who was also a fanatical ultra-nationalist who believed that the postwar Japanese government had failed to live up to the warrior code of bushido. He eventually committed ritual seppaku in a bizarre attempt to overthrow the government.
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:37:55 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Clemenza
I am well aware of who Mishima was. He wrote about masturbating the first time to a paitning of St. Sebastian, pierced by arrows. I wrote a paper on him in high school stating that his ultra-nationalism was tied into his interpretation of Bushido and his ritual death was an act of onanism.
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:43:04 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(There is no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat; just liberals who lie.)
To: rmlew
On another note, Tikkun Onanists create less harm in the long term than Tikkun Olamists...
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:45:28 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Clemenza; rmlew
Thanks for the information. I also did a quick search and found him. After reading what you said and what I found, it jogged my memory as to his suicide. I remember it and thought it all very strange at the time.
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:45:50 PM PDT
by
SeaDragon
("Life is tough ..... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne)
To: rmlew
his scenario of burning down the Golden Pavilion of Kyoto by a crazed young Bhuddist priest, in one of his novels most most weird, even too much for the Japanese to handle (the British movie with that particular
scene was actually banned in Japan itself). i had to go all the way to London to see it.
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posted on
04/15/2010 4:48:27 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(2012 Prediction! Pres. Biden vs. Fmr. SOS Clinton....with Fmr. Pres. Obama still in mental rehab)
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