[TigerLikesRooster]

[Candor7]

Did Envoy Caroline Kennedy bow like her sainted Master, which was seen as a mockery and a sign of treachery by the Imperial family of Japan??

And how can one tell? The Imperial couple did not bow back. They trust America now about as far as Her Imperial Majesty can spit, which she never does BTW. In Japan how one bows allows a judgement of character and Obama flunked big time. Carolyn does not have a hope of mending that tripe. They needed to appoint someone who speaks the language fluently, like Lazamataz or Fred Nerks..... :-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

I'll give her exactly one week to get her act together, but no more than that. (After all, we have to practice the "Golden Rule" from time to time and it would be a tall order for me were I in her shoes, though I imagine I would be up to warp speed on issues already in comparison to her, and the poor thing is going to have briefing books up to her eyebrows for sixth months. She takes over a a most dangerous time for Japan in the East Asian scheme of things. Typically Obaman, actually, all of it.

PS What I find eery is her going by horse drawn carriage and yet her father 50 years ago today was carried to his resting place also by a horse drawn caisson. Can't get much stranger than that.