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.))