Time off for good behaviour

If, like Our Man, you find yourself with time on your hands, no paper because it's a newspaper holiday in Japan, and no iPhone, you may have to read that "New Year's Special" the Japan Times put out yesterday filled with earnest 2,000 word articles about "challenges" facing the DPJ, and a bunch of drunken columnists investing meaning in the last 10 years. Or, you could just look out the train window - something Our Man will be doing a lot of as he is weekending in Kamakura, home of the big Buddha (and an awful lot of single foreign men). Hey, Our Man's not saying anything, OK?

If you do have access to the intertwaterweb, you could read this instead about meaty stuff to do with the Japan-US alliance.

Oh by the way, did you know Hatoyama is on Twitter now? Check out the Our Man Twitter feed if you want to send him your best regards.