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From: Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Prime Ministerial roulette
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 01:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 4, 6:54=A0am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On 06/04/2010 12:57 AM, Declan Murphy wrote:
> > > On Jun 3, 6:43 pm, CL<flot...@yahoo.com> =A0wrote:
> > >> On 06/03/2010 06:00 PM, Declan Murphy wrote:
>
> > >>> On Jun 3, 1:41 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > >>>> Declan Murphy<declan_mur...@hotmail.com> =A0 =A0wrote:
> > >>>>> About to have a 5th Prime Minister in 4 years. I bet 1 pint of
> > >>>>> Guinness to each of you that we will see a 6th before December.
>
> > >>>> Vaguely reminds me of my term in the land of the crashing Nikkei;
> > >>>> Takeshita->Uno->Kaifu within 3 months.
>
> > >>>> Mike
>
> > >>> I always forget Uno. I wonder why :-)
>
> > >> Wasn't he the guy who had to resign because his wife slapped him aro=
und
> > >> and kicked him down a flight of stairs as he returned home from his
> > >> mistresses' apartment (that's supposed to be a singular possessive, =
but
> > >> I forget what you do with the apostrophe in a multiple 's' case)? =
=A0Lots
> > >> of people forgot about him. =A0Rumor has it that he had the worst at=
tended
> > >> funeral of any former PM in the post-WWII era.
>
> > > I thought he was the guy who had to resign because his mistress (high
> > > rank geisha) complained to the press that he wasn't paying the
> > > appropriate amount.
> > Then the boxer wife was Takeshita (?). =A0I've been here a long time an=
d
> > it is hard keeping the stupidity-based scandals separate from the
> > greed-based ones.
>
> Anyone remember Kanemaru? Not a PM, but was caught with $42M in stocks, c=
ash,
> and gold bullion in his HOUSE? His excuse (I kid you not) was that he was=
 going
> to use the money to "fight corruption in politics".

I don't remember the gold bars etc. My main memory of the old fart was
dozens of police waiting outside his home to place him under arrest,
and Shin Kanemaru not coming out to be arrested because he was playing
mahjong. There seemed to be a hell of a lot of deferential treatment
by the police for someone so blatantly abusing public position and
trust.