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Japanese scandals are never about what they appear to be about. To quote a proverb, “the hidden side has a hidden side of its own.”
Shinzo Abe
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A glance at the Japanese banking system – and indeed at any bank branch, with its ranks of paper-shufflers – shows how much room there is for improvement.
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Even by the standards of the regime’s bellicose rhetoric, threats of outright genocide are extreme…
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“Opposition” does not refer to minority parties in parliament, who remain irrelevant, but hardliners in the bureaucracy and their supporters
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“There are people who wish I wouldn’t refer to China as our enemy. But that’s exactly what they are…”
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Would it be constitutional, the prime minister wonders as the 380 foot behemoth wreaks havoc in central Tokyo?
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Prime ministers came and went like karaoke singers taking turns at the microphone.
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Abe himself is considered a “nationalist”, which is simply a way of saying a patriot that you don’t like
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Japan is less liberal than most Western countries, but more democratic.
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Remarkably even Zimbabwe, once the poster-child for hyperinflation, is now in deflation