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Showing posts with label habatsu. Show all posts

Showing posts with label habatsu. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

A Brief Look at the Seiwa-kai’s Books

The FY2007 political financing report from the Seiwa-kai, , currently the largest LDP faction, which has not totally coincidentally produced...

Monday, July 06, 2009

Nakasone, LDP Elders, etc., etc…

My dialogue with Mark the Techie continues: Why do you like Nakasone? And what do you think of his son, Hirofumi? The elder Nakasone had—st...

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Diet Couple Celebrate Wedding by Joining Habatsu

Tamayo Marukawa (House of Councilors, Tokyo District, ‘07) and Taku Otsuka (House of Representatives, proportional seat, Tokyo Bloc, ‘05) bo...

Saturday, February 09, 2008

The Meaning of Habatsu

There must be hundreds of books written about the LDP, all of which surely have something to say about the habatsu , the party factions, for...

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Random Firings of the Synapses on the New Fukuda Cabinet, Factions, Reformist Prime Ministers and Stuff

Got a long email from Mentor , gave a shorter response. Lightly edited and excised of personal stuff, here it is: - Yasuo Fukuda takes over ...

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

LDP Discontents Start a New Policy Group. Are the Factions on the Move?

It is not a major news item, but the main dailies are carrying the news. Seven LDP Lower House members got together on the 21st and agreed t...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

On Factions and the Prime Minister's Decision to Stay on

This is my answer to a comment on this post . Since it's been nearly a week since the original post, I'm reposting it. I think that ...

Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Mainichi Says It's the Defense Minister Winning on Both Counts and Takes a Dig at the Prime Minister as Well

A Mainichi reporter has taken Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki's statement that "the procedures are the problem, and I a...

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Jun Okumura: After graduation, Jun Okumura promptly entered what is now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and stayed in in its ecosystem most of his “adult” life. Along the way, he had pleasant stops in an assortment of Japanese quangos (Japangos?), overseas assignments and government agencies. After thirty years, though, it dawned on him that he had no aptitude whatsoever for administration and/or management. Armed with this epiphany, he went to the authorities and arranged an amicable separation; to come out, as it were. He is completely on his own IYKWIAS, but he and the METI folks remain “good friends.” He currently holds the titles of “visiting researcher” at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (no, that MIGA) and counselor at a risk analysis firm that dares not speak its name. This gives him plenty of time to blog or make money on his own. His bank account says that he does too much of the first, and insists that he do more of what he calls “intellectual odd jobs”. He wants to be paid to write fulltime, or better, talk—where the easy money is—but that distinction has largely escaped him. He really should not be referring to himself in the third person; he is not that famous.

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