Gov. Ishihara's true calling: LUMBERJACK

[Taro Toporific]

"I didn't want to do this job. I wanted to be... a lumberjack!...."
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[INDENT]Tokyo launches cedar pollen reduction project in Tama
The Japan Times/Kyodo News, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006---The Tokyo Metropolitan Government started a project Monday to cut down 1.8 million cedar trees in the mountainous Tama region west of Tokyo to help people with cedar pollen allergies....Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara chops a 48-year-old cedar tree during a ceremony to kick off a pollen reduction project in Ome, western Tokyo...more...[/INDENT]
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"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay / I sleep all night and I work all day....I cut down trees / I skip and jump / like to press wild flowers / I put on women's clothing / and hang around in bars...." ---YouTube video "Monty Python - Lumberjack Song"

[den4]

I wonder how long it will be before Blinky joins in the revival of the Village People? Can't you just see him dressed in the Indian outfit with the hatchet in his hands, singing Macho Macho Man?

[Behan]

Brilliant! That is really funny.

[jingai]

Ishihara's a lot older than the tree he's cutting down.

[Greji]

Ishihara's a lot older than the tree he's cutting down.

But, remember Jingai! He can say "No"!

[baka tono]

OMG where is his hard hat and proper lumberjack gear! Bad Japanese not having the right gear for the (pretend) job

[Samurai_Jerk]

The project, aimed at reducing pollen produced by a 1,200-hectare area in the mountains by 20 percent over 10 years, involves replacing ordinary cedar trees with broadleaf trees and a new kind of cedar that releases only a tenth of the pollen of the conventional cedar.

I don't believe that for a minute. It'll probably be trees with concrete trunks and regibukuro leaves.

Why are they even planting more cedars? Why not plant the same kind of trees that were there before the area was cleared and replanted?