On Jun 4, 12:01 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/2010 11:57 AM, The 2-Belo wrote:
>
>
>
> > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that chuckers has
> > exploded. Flight director confirms that:
>
> >> On Jun 4, 9:09?am, chuckers<chucker...@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>> On Jun 4, 6:54?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
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> >>>> 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>  ?wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 06/03/2010 06:00 PM, Declan Murphy wrote:
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> >>>>>>>> On Jun 3, 1:41 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Declan Murphy<declan_mur...@hotmail.com>  ? ?wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> 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 around
> >>>>>>> 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)? ?Lots
> >>>>>>> of people forgot about him. ?Rumor has it that he had the worst attended
> >>>>>>> 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 (?). ?I've been here a long time and
> >>>>> 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, cash,
> >>>> 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".
>
> >>>> Mike
>
> >>> The spousal unit keeps mentioning Kanemaru, expecting me to know who
> >>> that is.
> >>> It keeps coming up because we are apparently an acquaintance of one of
> >>> his descendants
> >>> (daughter?) ?Or maybe that is a different Kanemaru. ?Or not even a
> >>> Kanemaru. ?I try to pay
> >>> attention to whats being said around the house but some of it just
> >>> won't stick.
>
> >> Not daughter.  We know the wife of one of his sons (again, depending
> >> on if this is
> >> the same person or not.  Will ask when I get home (and be berated for
> >> not
> >> remembering/paying attention.  Again.))
>
> > He's talking about Shin Kanemaru. "The Kingmaker", he was called. The guy back
> > behind the curtain who played all the construction companies for bribes. When I
> > got here in 1992 the Sagawa Kyuubin scandal was in full roar. I remember that
> > like it was yesterday...
>
> No, no, no, no ... Kanemaru was "The Shadow Shogun" ... "The Kingmaker"
> was someone else ...
>
> --
> CL

NY Times called him Kingmaker.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/29/world/shin-kanemaru-81-kingmaker-in-japan-toppled-by-corruption.html?pagewanted=1?pagewanted=1