Last chance to write Hatoyama in a headline

Wow, a day in Japanese politics is a long time. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama quit Wednesday lunchtime and the nation is (slightly maybe a bit) more rudderless than before. Shame, because Our Man had just in the last few days been able to write his first name without having to check it wasn't his brother, Harry, the Second Earl of Bridgestone. A skill that sadly will no longer be needed, now that the word "Hatoyama" will ne'er be spake again outside of learned academic J-blogs. The talk is already on to who will be his replacement.

But before we move on, let's take a moment to appreciate all that Hatoyama has achieved:

Errrr...*

Our Man is all Hatoyama'd out so, may he leave it to the good folk of Twitter who had the best lines (James in Japan wins the free subscription to Our Man for best line of the day):

Click here and sift through Our Man's Twitter bin if you can't read the iddy biddy text. Oh, but let's go straight to the horse's mouth (lifted from Politicomix)

*Actually Our Man can think of two things: 1. He stopped the dam building, maybe for a bit. 2. He is going to put ¥26,000 in the post every month for Our Man's drin... children's education, maybe for a bit.