Japan defied all of their pre-tournament form last night, with a steady and defiant 1-0 win over top ranked African nation Cameroon. Japan, ranked 45 in the world, defeated the 19th ranked Cameroon with some great defensive pressure, matching the African team’s physical presence. Their defence was basically inpenetrable, and after a series of recent [...]
I have a feeling that we are in for a long period of sickening headlines and T-shirts… With a name like ‘Kan’, the Prime Minister is well set up for puns and merchandising, not to mention newspaper and blog headlines.
According to a Japan Times article today, an online retailer, Club T, has begun [...]
Here are all the links you will need for the Kan Cabinet, announced yesterday. There are more than 100 links to Japanese and English home pages and profiles of cabinet members, as well as their ministries.
Prime Minister
(首相官邸) http://www.kantei.go.jp/
ENG: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
Kan Naoto (菅直人) (63)
JPN HP: http://www.n-kan.jp/
ENG DPJ Profile: http://www.dpj.or.jp/english/member/?detail_80=1
ENG Wiki Profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoto_Kan
ENG BBC Profile: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3249613.stm
ENG JT Profile: [...]
With the resignation of Hatoyama Yukio last week, Kan Naoto became the fifth man to hold the post of Japanese Prime Minister since September 2006. Since this time, Abe Shinzo (1 year), Fukuda Yasuo (1 year), Aso Taro (1 year), and Hatoyama Yukio (8.5 months) have all failed to govern beyond their first anniversary… Indeed, [...]
Shortly after the election of Hatoyama Yukio as Prime Minister in August of last year, I reported here on the rise of obscure comedian Hatoyama Kuruo, who had a striking resemblance to the Prime Minister. After 17 years in the wilderness, he gained some popularity after being encouraged by Beat Takeshi to put on [...]
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Number 1:
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