Friday, 17 April 2009

Japanese Politics: The truth hurts

Chiba Gov. Kensaku Morita is pictured on April 6 in Chiba's Chuo Ward. (Mainichi)

Remember that nice chap from TV, what's-his-face who is the new Governor of Chiba? Seems some folk have been getting their knickers in a twist because he said he was independent, but everybody already knew he was the candidate for the LDP (the forces of evil, remember?). Our Man did and he's usually the last to know. In the interests of clearing things up for the literal minded: When folk say they would love to see your 300 slides of your trip to Disneyland, they don't really mean it. Shocking huh?

1 comment:

Armchair Asia said...

Ok, so he was head of the LDP in his district...

I liked the part where he returned campaign funds from a partly owned foreign company for "moral" reasons.

Hey, in Washington the foreign companies give money to lawyers and lobbyists who bundle it and then give it to campaigns. Don't the Japanese know what lawyers are for?
ACA