Seems the news keeps getting worse for the incumbent LDP. If they thought their "October surprise" of SMAP calling for impressionable 30-somethings to vote for the powers that be (may Our Man state once more for the record what complete tossers SMAP are) was going to rescue them, they didn't account for the masses of folk who have already voted. As Global Talk 21 points out here, the numbers of ballots already cast is pretty staggering - a record 10 million folk - about 10 percent of the electorate - which spells bad news for the LDP who would want a low turnout to limit their losses. Our Man can vouch that he has heard of queues at Abiko City Hall where absentee ballots could be cast all this week - something previously unheard of.
But if you are a closet LDP-backer (what the hell are you doing here, haven't you been paying attention?) you could hope that a divine wind (the fabled kamikaze) saves the higher-ups. This actually may be the LDP's best bet - a typhoon has been forecast to hit sometime in the next 24 hours.
Wait a minute though, remind Our Man, does bad weather benefit the incumbents or challengers?
Pic lifted from here.
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"Kamikaze Girls" is fairly entertaining, if you've never seen it. Its setting is somewhere up your way too.
I'd also just like to point out that recently SMAP have started endorsing Softbank, which underlines their tosserness.
("Captcha" for this comment is, appopriately, "lotabla").
Haven't been able to watch movies with such provocative names since the mid-1990s or so. But thanks anyway.
The original name is "Shimozuma Monogatari", Shimozuma being a small town some way to your north on route 294, if Google is not telling porkie pies. Presumably it had to be jazzed up for overseas consumption (the film name, not the town). Dunno whether it got any hi' falutin' film prizes but doesn't involve any aeroplanes at all and there are less pleasant ways of passing the time.
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