Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!postnews.google.com!n37g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: chuckers Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Prime Ministerial roulette Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:17:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 95 Message-ID: References: <4c0820f3$0$5554$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> <0dd80718-8941-475d-9e10-5b22a5e51ea7@11g2000prv.googlegroups.com> <87d23a07-db9b-4252-a59f-8414b1559705@s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.36.179.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275621460 31256 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2010 03:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 03:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n37g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.36.179.50; posting-account=iPkvIwoAAAAK9uQVY7lJ0Hck6k8yfmjW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169282 On Jun 4, 12:01=A0pm, CL 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 chucke= rs has > > exploded. Flight director confirms that: > > >> On Jun 4, 9:09?am, chuckers =A0wrote: > >>> On Jun 4, 6:54?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > >>>> CL =A0wrote: > >>>>> On 06/04/2010 12:57 AM, Declan Murphy wrote: > >>>>>> On Jun 3, 6:43 pm, CL =A0?wrote: > >>>>>>> On 06/03/2010 06:00 PM, Declan Murphy wrote: > > >>>>>>>> On Jun 3, 1:41 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > >>>>>>>>> Declan Murphy =A0? ?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 Nikke= i; > >>>>>>>>> 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 h= is > >>>>>>> mistresses' apartment (that's supposed to be a singular possessiv= e, 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 a= ttended > >>>>>>> funeral of any former PM in the post-WWII era. > > >>>>>> I thought he was the guy who had to resign because his mistress (h= igh > >>>>>> 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 stoc= ks, cash, > >>>> and gold bullion in his HOUSE? His excuse (I kid you not) was that h= e 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 o= f > >>> 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. =A0We know the wife of one of his sons (again, depending > >> on if this is > >> the same person or not. =A0Will ask when I get home (and be berated fo= r > >> not > >> remembering/paying attention. =A0Again.)) > > > He's talking about Shin Kanemaru. "The Kingmaker", he was called. The g= uy 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 remembe= r 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=3D1?pagewanted=3D1