JAPAN-POLITICS/HATOYAMA-OZAWA (URGENT, REPEAT) (both are quitting)

Reuters ^ | 06/01/10

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JAPAN-POLITICS/HATOYAMA-OZAWA (URGENT, REPEAT)

Tue Jun 1, 2010 9:19pm EDT

RPT-Japan PM Hatoyama says to resign, Ozawa to quit

TOKYO June 2 (Reuters) - Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Wednesday he would resign, as the ruling party struggles to revive its chances in an upper house election expected in July.

He said ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa would also resign from the party's No.2 post.

[TigerLikesRooster]

The current ruling party could probably find a replacement for Hatoyama. Anyhow, in a few years, Japan would be likely to have a hardline conservative PM, when its economy takes a dive in earnest.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

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The world is going crazy. This is what happens when you have a weak U.S. President, incapable of standing for a strong United States and the stability that she ensures.

[WVNan]

Thank you for posting this news. Is this a good thing for Japan, or does it just complicate matters?

[Toirdhealbheach Beucail]

Wow! This is big. He's only been in office 8 months.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I think it is good for Japan. Hatoyama and especially his radical leftist coalition partner, Socialist Party of Japan, tried to jerk the cornerstone of Japanese national security. It is not the main reason Japanese voters elected them. They are more interested in rooting out corruption, and replacing hapless ineffective leadership of Liberal Democrats. They failed to decisively act on pension problem and economic problems in general.

However, Hatoyama ended up giving wrong agenda too much focus. I think Japanese electorates were seriously unsettled. He did not make much headway in tackling daunting economic problem, either.

[gaijin]

This has even me surprised. Wow!

Yes, this is movement in earnest to the right.

No more gridlock of the Lollipops-and-Sunshine variety. Now we get more realism, but also return to gridlock of the iron-triangle variety.

Overall positive, yes, but observers in the USA tend to overestimate the bottom-line significance of Japanese elections; unseen bureaucrats run stuff in Japan, even though it’s not “nice” to go around yelling this...

The Japanese public is admitting an awareness that reality (in the form of torpedos and missiles) is impinging on a rosy mental MODEL of reality.

So in this narrow sense the US and Japan have set out on similar paths.

[gaijin]

Loosers: NK, Okinawans, China, lefties, J’s of NK ancestry in Japan, students generally, most journalists, most intellectuals

Winners: Asian security, USMC, rightwardly inclined folks, defense industry, USA (sort of), South Koreans with brains

[TigerLikesRooster]

I think Japanese bureaucracy would meet its match soon. It has been foundering too long, letting things get worse and worse. Debts reaches 110% of GDP. Considering the size of Japanese GDP, that is staggering.

It is no surprise that Japanese got tired of life-style Chukaku-ha and aging Japanese hippies flashing their face on evening news everyday, wasting time on fringe issues.

[SuperLuminal]

Good news...But not “urgent”...

[TigerLikesRooster]

lefties, students generally, most journalists, most intellectuals

In any contemporary country, if these groups have upper hand, it would soon find itself in deep trouble. S. Korea is in the same situation, too. Recently, their sabotage action on Internet and media after Cheonan incident is simply mind-boggling. They are all going crazy.

[SandRat]

Moth-Ra is taking them out

[Plutarch]

We don’t know anything until we hear from American in Tokyo

[SevenofNine]

Godzilla’s fault or Bush fault

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[SevenofNine]

I knew it is Jet Jaguar’s fault LOL!

JET HONEY did you have something do with this ROFL

[Jet Jaguar]

;0)

[SevenofNine]

Admit it who you bribe on that get this PM resignation Mothra???

[Jet Jaguar]

[SevenofNine]

Man you got whole team there ROFL

Alright JJ