Asahi.com Sep 24 2003 1:48AM
...the real focus of our interest is Koizumi himself. Will he be able to change the LDP and Japan? U.S. Time magazine editorialized that ``Koizumi may be remembered as the Mikhail Gorbachev of this era in Japan,'' meaning he will go down in history as someone who broke old tradition, but his presence will be only transitory.
In his second term as LDP president, I wonder if he will be capable of living up to the Confucian precept of ``act with swiftness, speak with restraint.''
. . . Sheeeeeeee-it, do-nothing is JPN "restraint".
