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:
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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:
>>
>> > > >>> 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...


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