Finance Minister Nakagawa Drunk At G7 Talks?

[amdg]

There is considerably likelihood that Nakagawa was trapped by one woman Yomiuri Shinbun reporter, who was drinking together with him just before the press conference. Probably she is a spy of Uncle Sam and Nakagawa opposed to something Sam got angry with.

Another site about her
http://saiyou.yomiuri.co.jp/works/hensyu/syain/echizenya01.html
http://info.yomiuri.co.jp/jinji/job/job/echizenya.htm
Paliament secretaries and shinbun reporters are filled with spies of America, China and Korea.

Ahhh, a spy.... yes it all makes sense now. Poor drunk Nakagawa would never have gotten drunk unless it was due to the honeytrap spy. Thanks Take, you've convinced me. Once again evil US must confess to trapping poor Japanese man.

[Netherlander]

[wuchan]

Like him, I would have to be shitfaced to sit across the table from her for longer than a minute.

Paliament secretaries and shinbun reporters are filled with spies of America, China and Korea.

We all know, mostly from watching 007 in action, spies like to "fill" secretaries and reporters.

[Greji]

Paliament secretaries and shinbun reporters are filled with spies of America, China and Korea.

Ahhh, what's there to spy on?

[Takechanpoo]

[YT]I4u3449L5VI[/YT]
French dude, too.

[Buraku]

[Greji]

Aso is officially a lame duck

Officially? What makes you use that word? Does Hillary turn your crank that much?

I highly doubt that she does the same for Nagatacho.....

[Buraku]

[Buraku]

I guess the answer is actually "nobody," but under the circumstances Koizumi would probably be the best bet.

I think he wants to create room to have his favorite Yuriko Koike to be the new PM.

I've got one word for you guys
Ishihara
Nobuteru Ishihara

He's much less scary than Blinky, a skilled politician and was only 9 votes behind Koike in the leadership election. His old school TV reporter skills are going to help charm people back to LDP plus a lot of business will love his free trade ideas.

[Yokohammer]

I've got one word for you guys
Ishihara
Nobuteru Ishihara

He's much less scary than Blinky ...

That's another possibility. The one thing that does scare me a little about that prospect is: same gene pool. That's family, and I can't imagine Blinky being able to resist the urge to attempt to pull a few strings in the background or wheedle his way into the picture somehow. And as we all know, Blinky is just full of helpful ideas (that's sarcasm, by the way).

But if Nobuteru can remain relatively influence-free he might not be a bad PM.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

I've got one word for you guys
Ishihara

They could give the job to brother Yoshizumi Ishihara and it would be less cocked up than Aso.

[canman]

Everytime I see Nobuteru Ishihara I always think of Dead Man Walking. He looks like such a ghost. I guess I wouldn'T mind him, but I think Japan needs a change and as much as a lot of people don't trust or believe Ozawa, I think he deserves a chance.

[Yokohammer]

... Japan needs a change and as much as a lot of people don't trust or believe Ozawa, I think he deserves a chance.

I was thinking the same thing a while back when it became clear that Aso was a total waste of time (didn't take long), and asked a few J-friends what they thought. Most didn't like the idea at all. And I was told that he's just not physically well enough to handle the post. Apparently his health situation is pretty bad. Don't know how much truth there is in that, but there it is.

[Greji]

I think Japan needs a change and as much as a lot of people don't trust or believe Ozawa, I think he deserves a chance.

If you want change Can, Ozawa's your man! He changes his stance on issues like he changes his shirt. That's why most people don't trust him.

[Kuang_Grade]

Today's (2/17) print edition of the US Wall St Journal has two pictures of Nakagawa above the fold...one is of him on Saturday, appearing sleepy eyed at table with someone to his left speaking into a mic while he is grabbing a glass, however the position of his hand grabbing the glass is right in front of a microphone. A quick glance at the photo would give the impression of someone boozed up reaching over to grab a mic from someone else because the glass isn't all that visible ...the second is a head shot of him with his face all scrunched up either in sorrow or he is trying to shit a brick. The first photo has the caption of 'saturday's slurred words and mangled answers at the G-7 meeting...' while the second has 'lead to monday's sobering moment for Japan's Finance Minister' with a another caption saying to look inside for the story on A6 and the video at http://www.wsj.com/video.

[Catoneinutica]

William Stonehill weighs in over at the NBR Forum:

[INDENT][INDENT]DR responds:
> Small correction: the video is all over the mainstream TV news, not only
> the Internet. Nobody seems to be buying the "cold medicine" explanation. :-}

WTS writes: I for one would be willing to accept it. Braun, a Japanese cold
medicine is so potent that the commander of one US base (Iwakuni springs to
mind) asked the local government of ban Marines from buying it. It seems
that it was being widely abused by US servicemen. It also used to be a cheap
high in my neighborhood until the druggist were asked by the police to move
it behind the counter.

I can see that combined with jet lag rendering anyone incoherent.[/INDENT][/INDENT]

http://www.nbr.org/foraui/message.aspx?LID=5&MID=34138

Any fg ever used "Braun" as a cheap high?

[Greji]

Any fg ever used "Braun" as a cheap high?

Braun and Japanese Ritalin among other Japanese medicines, were being widely used and abused for cheap highs by some GIs and a lot of dependent school kids at the bases during the 60-70's.

There were local regulations put into place that prohibited the use of any Japanese medication by US Forces members and their families. I don't know if it actually has been rescinded to the present...

[Mike Oxlong]

Bron is a opiod-based cough suppressant (codeine). But, as the Japanese are strong believers in polypharmacology, it also has (depending on the version, and there are several) an antihistamine, caffeine, ephedra, and so on.

Bron contains dihydrocodeine, which has the same composition as codeine-a controlled narcotic substance. It comes in pill, powder and syrup form. The pill form contains ephedrine and is the most popular among abusers, according to Navy Criminal Investigative Service.

Bron abusers usually consume the drug in large doses, attempting to achieve a euphoric high, increased energy or, sometimes, weight loss.

The large doses often have serious adverse side effects including confusion, dizziness, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, heart irregularities, seizures and death.

http://www.okinawa.usmc.mil/public%20affairs%20info/archive%20news%20pages/2006/060126-bron.html

I can assure everyone that large doses of codeine, in and of itself, is not especially harmful, and indeed quite pleasurable. But, mixed with alcohol or other depressants can become very dangerous. The type of high you'd get is nothing like the soon-to-be former finance minister exhibited in his recent televised spectacle.

[Mock Cockpit]

Aneton is better than Bron, more bang (codeine) for your buck!

[Greji]

Aneton is better than Bron, more bang (codeine) for your buck!

How does it taste when served on the rocks?

[Catoneinutica]

[Takechanpoo]

Before this "scandal", Japan made "single-largest" contribution to the world economy by using J-national's money....
Fuckin Jewish=Anglo-Saxon medias and more fuckin J-medias doesn't try reporting this.


IMF Signs $100 Billion Borrowing Agreement With Japan

Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Shoichi Nakagawa, Minister of Finance of Japan, signed the terms of Japan's $100 billion commitment on February 13 under a borrowing agreement designed to temporarily supplement the Fund's financial resources.

The IMF said the additional funds will bolster its capacity to provide timely and effective balance of payments assistance to its 185 member governments.

Strauss-Kahn, on a trip to Rome to attend a meeting of ministers from the Group of Seven (G-7) advanced economies, said the IMF was deeply grateful for the Japanese government's support [see video reaction].

"This commitment is the single-largest supplemental financing contribution by an IMF member country ever, and it clearly demonstrates Japan's continuing commitment to a multilateral approach to global economic and financial challenges. We are hopeful that other countries will join Japan in providing their support to the Fund's efforts."

Japan's total commitment is equivalent to about 31 percent of total Fund quotas, the capital members put into the IMF when joining.

[Takechanpoo]

There is considerably likelihood that Nakagawa was trapped by one woman Yomiuri Shinbun reporter, who was drinking together with him just before the press conference. Probably she is a spy of Uncle Sam and Nakagawa opposed to something Sam got angry with.

Another site about her
http://saiyou.yomiuri.co.jp/works/hensyu/syain/echizenya01.html
http://info.yomiuri.co.jp/jinji/job/job/echizenya.htm
Paliament secretaries and shinbun reporters are filled with spies of America, China and Korea.

Hey!!!!
All of links were deleted!!!!
Fuck you, bitch!!!

I still believe this is a small conspiracy.

[Catoneinutica]

But, as the Japanese are strong believers in polypharmacology...

Polypharmacology - I like the lingo! Japan is nothing if not a pillhead's paradise. All those folks kvetching about Japan's pot phobia should take note of the fact that Japan, unlike some other countries with national health care such as France, allows patients to wantonly clinic-hop. And since there's no sharing of medical records between clinics, the sky's the limit for securing prescriptions of whatever flavor of mother's little helper an addict may prefer.

[Buraku]

TIME

Top 10 Embarrassing Diplomatic Moments
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1880208,00.html
10Clinton Asleep

9Jimmy Carter lost in translation

8Ford Fall

7Bush the pervert

6Father George H. W. Bush projectile pukes

5Gordon Brown Cellphone

4Bush Potty Mouth

3Sarkozy out of his mind

2Soviet Supreme Footloose

1LDP Minister Shoichi Nakagawa

blames his interest rate confusion and G7 drunkness on cold medicine

[Greji]

Hey!!!!
All of links were deleted!!!!
Fuck you, bitch!!!

I still believe this is a small conspiracy.

And I still can't figure out what they would want to spy on in Japan?

[Yokohammer]

And I still can't figure out what they would want to spy on in Japan?

A secret recipe for natto?

[Greji]

alcohol is clearly the kryptonite of the LDP

Amazing the world has turned against us drunks.....

Just a note on the UK....

".....BOOZE runs through the very veins of British politics. No democracy has
been, over the years, so consistently pickled: William Pitt the Younger
marinated himself daily with three bottles of port; Winston Churchill
slurped through the war on a tidal wave of champagne and brandy. The
very language of drinking has been framed by our elected
representatives, such as "Squiffy" Asquith and George Brown, Labour's
famously blotto Foreign Secretary in the 1960s, for whom the phrase
"tired and emotional" was coined.
We celebrate our legless legislators, yet, with a strangely British
double standard, when they are found face-down we abjure them. In
Russia, political drunkenness is merely funny; in Europe, it is
disgraceful; in Britain, we applaud the conviviality of the sociable
drinker, but condemn the weakness of the drunk. Innumerable British
political lives have been oiled by alcohol; some may have been enhanced
by it; several have been tragically destroyed by it.
MPs drink far less than they used to, but still a great deal more than
the rest of the country. The reasons are partly practical, and partly
psychological. There are 17 places to buy alcohol in the Palace of
Westminster, which is immune from legal restrictions on closing times.
An MP's life can be lonely and dull, as well as frenetic and stressful;
separated from family, forced to live by strange hours, they inevitably
gravitate to the (usually male) clubbiness of the snug.
Inevitably, the parliamentary tribes drink together, as a bonding
ritual. Scottish MPs used to climb on to the overnight northbound train
en masse at the end of the week, and then drink it dry. They were
singing by Crewe, and hog-whimpering by Carlisle; every week was
Hogmanay.
Moreover. the rules of Parliament connive in the boozing, since it is
technically impossible to be drunk in the Chamber. No matter how sloshed
a Member may be, for another member to point this out is taboo. The cry
of "not sober" was banned in 1945.
It is easy to overlook quite how embarrassing much of politics can be,
and drink helps to ease the discomfort, up to a point. Politicians have
to pretend to like people they naturally detest, like journalists; they
must suck up to their superiors, betray their allies, make speeches in
public on abstruse subjects, and withstand a level of boredom that would
crush a normal human being. This is all much easier after a few drinks;
after a skinful, it seems like a piece of cake, which is when
"incidents" occur.
Alan Clark, famously, came to the House after a wine tasting and droned
drunkenly through his speech, prompting Clare Short to admonish him for
appearing "in this condition". Unabashed, in his diary, Clark left a
glass-by-glass account of precisely how he had achieved that condition:
"A Palmer '61, then a '75 for comparison, before switching back to '61,
a delicious Pichon Longueville."
The danger of making a political mistake when drunk is as nothing to the
risk of saying something that happens to be true. In vino veritas; but
veritas is a dangerous political commodity. As Foreign Secretary, George
Brown got only halfway through a dinner in honour of the Turkish
President before lurching to his feet to declare, no doubt rightly: "You
don't want to listen to this bullshit - let's go and have a drink."
Churchill said: "I have taken more out of drink than it has taken out of
me." But in this, as in so much, he was exceptional. Booze did for
Brown's career, probably ensuring that he was beaten to the leadership
by Harold Wilson.
Politicians have always drunk too much, and always lied about it. In
1957 Nye Bevan, Richard Crossman and Morgan Philips successfully sued
The Spectator for claiming that they were drunk at a conference in
Venice, which they were. Today the pressure not to drink, and thus the
pressure to lie if you do, is greater than ever. New Labour has brought
a strange whiff of Puritanism from the likes of Alastair Campbell
(teetotal), Peter Mandelson (who is known to sip hot water at dinner
parties) and Tony Blair (just a cup of tea, thanks awfully).
A more sober democratic process would probably be happier, and certainly
healthier, but it might be even more tense and brittle, and surely less
colourful. I suspect that the most famous George Brown drinking anecdote
of all immeasurably improved our diplomatic relations with Peru.
At a grand reception in that country in the 1960s, the Labour Foreign
Secretary tottered up to a figure resplendent in a fetching purple
frock, and slurringly asked her for a dance. She turned him down with
the response: "First, you are drunk. Second, this is not a waltz, it is
the Peruvian national anthem. And third, I am not a woman, I am the
Cardinal Archbishop of Lima....."

[Coligny]

[YT]I4u3449L5VI[/YT]
French dude, too.

Dude, he was just out of a drinking game with Vlad Putin. Everyone told him to stay away from the polonium laced tea, but that the vodka was safe...
Vlad being quite a playfull guy, nicolas being quite... a bottom of the barrel tard on his first night out. You got this result...

And Tom Clancy called, he want his bad scenario back for the next splinter cell video game...

[Takechanpoo]

And I still can't figure out what they would want to spy on in Japan?

Dudes, who leak J-politician's scandals to America, China or J-bureaucrats, are always their secretaries, media reporters.