The political event in the Japan

[Snow Sabre]

Hello!

I am see always the Community Forum in the CBR is people talk about the political event. I am sorry I am very ignorant the USA politic so cannot talk about with you. But I am see many the USA people not very much like the Presidant Bush.

In the Japan we have the special election the week of previous. Is Prime Minister Koizumi is have this election. I am not very understand the political thing. But in the Japan change so much the prime minister. In the USA the Presidant Clinton is the president for the 8 year and the Presidant Bush is the same. In Japan is very strange for see the leader is more 3 or 4 year before is change. Prime Minister Koizumi is long time from 2001.

I think the political is the very strange thing. But I know is important.

[Joe Rice]

Saw a quick thing about this on the BBC. The new guy (I think it was him) looks like a weirdo. As my future-sis-in-law said, "As soon as the cameras turned off he went back to his underage school girl hooker." Ah, good times.

But, yeah, the Japan political scene is pretty weird.

[Royal]

Saw a quick thing about this on the BBC. The new guy (I think it was him) looks like a weirdo. As my future-sis-in-law said, "As soon as the cameras turned off he went back to his underage school girl hooker." Ah, good times.

But, yeah, the Japan political scene is pretty weird.

Koizumi got re elected. And yes, he looks like that.

But yeah, Huzzah for Koizumi. He's taken a very big beating for being a "radical". Now with the people watching his back, things will be a little bit easier.

[Sir Tim Drake]

It is pretty unusual for a Japanese Prime Minister to last four years. For example, the two previous prime ministers, Keizo Obuchi and Yoshiro Mori, were both in office for less than two years. I've never been clear on why the job changes hands so often.

(Although as another interesting factoid, the shortest-tenured Japanese Prime Minister was in office longer than the shortest-tenured American President-- 54 days versus 30 days.)

[Phrozen]

It is pretty unusual for a Japanese Prime Minister to last four years. For example, the two previous prime ministers, Keizo Obuchi and Yoshiro Mori, were both in office for less than two years. I've never been clear on why the job changes hands so often.

(Although as another interesting factoid, the shortest-tenured Japanese Prime Minister was in office longer than the shortest-tenured American President-- 54 days versus 30 days.)

The job lasts so little because the party in power is so factionalized it is like forming a coalition government within your own party. This happens mainly because the oppasition party is incredibly weak.

[Gilda Dent]

Hello!

I am see always the Community Forum in the CBR is people talk about the political event. I am sorry I am very ignorant the USA politic so cannot talk about with you. But I am see many the USA people not very much like the Presidant Bush.

In the Japan we have the special election the week of previous. Is Prime Minister Koizumi is have this election. I am not very understand the political thing. But in the Japan change so much the prime minister. In the USA the Presidant Clinton is the president for the 8 year and the Presidant Bush is the same. In Japan is very strange for see the leader is more 3 or 4 year before is change. Prime Minister Koizumi is long time from 2001.

I think the political is the very strange thing. But I know is important.

Hello Snow!

In the United States, the President is elected once every four years, in years that are divisible by four. A person can only be President two times, which makes it eight years if he gets elected twice. Sometimes the President loses the election the second time, and has to leave after only four years.

The President only has to leave office if he decides to resign, or if the legislature votes to remove him. Only one President has ever resigned, and no President has ever been removed.

The people can only vote to remove the President during the regular elections that happen every four years.

On a personal note, it's nice to see another Japanese woman here. I thought I was the only one, and I don't really count because I was born and grew up in the Mid-West.

Gilda

[Solaris]

Sabre (Kyoko) originally came on board a few months ago because Buried Alien, her friend, urged her to do so. She was looking for a way to improve her English. I daresay she's gotten a mixed bag of that with us---sometimes we do well with grammar, and other times we're atrocious with it! :D Her husband, Mike (Sharpshooter) posts on the rare occasion as well.

Kyoko worked as a model in Japan, met B.A. and Mike when she came to the states for college, married Mike, and they have two adorable daughters: Kanako, and the new baby Hanako. (Hope I spelled the girls' names correctly!) Kyoko is starting her own modeling agency; I believe it's based in Japan, but she might open a branch here in the States (is that right, Kyoko?).

She has some threads scattered about, mostly on the Comm forum, so far as I know. She's really sweet---I think you'll like her very much, Gilda. (Oh, we do have several other posters with Asian or mixed Asian ancestry---B.A. himself is of Chinese descent.) :)

[Messchird]

Is japanese politics notorious for corruption, anybody willing to tell me?

[Gilda Dent]

Sabre (Kyoko) originally came on board a few months ago because Buried Alien, her friend, urged her to do so. She was looking for a way to improve her English. I daresay she's gotten a mixed bag of that with us---sometimes we do well with grammar, and other times we're atrocious with it! :D Her husband, Mike (Sharpshooter) posts on the rare occasion as well.


As chance would have it, I happen to be an English teacher (technically humanities, English and social studies combined). Perhaps that may come in handy sometime in the future.

Gilda

[Solaris]

Is japanese politics notorious for corruption, anybody willing to tell me?


Corruption? No more or less than any other culture, I would guess. But I don't know much about Japanese politics.

[Paradox]

Gilda Dent offers help:

As chance would have it, I happen to be an English teacher (technically humanities, English and social studies combined). Perhaps that may come in handy sometime in the future.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Sabre's patois is amazingly charming! You'll wreck her!

I especially like the fact that I am "a pervert person"! :p