Declan Murphy wrote:
>>> 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S$(D??(Bsuke_Uno
" The story was not widely publicized in Japan until a Washington Post 
reporter picked up the story from the Mainichi Shimbun, bringing 
international attention to Uno. "

Don't tell me they picked up that story after reading about it on WaiWai 
? ;-) How often do Washington Post reporters directly read the Mainichi 
in japanese ?