During a photo opp at the Japanese parliament, the [Polish] president asked his national-security adviser, General Stanisław Koziej, to join him by addressing him as “shogun”, the title of Japan’s effective rulers until the mid-nineteenth century and of a television series popular in Poland in the 1980s.
Komorowski also mounted the chair of the speaker of Japan’s Diet, an act that apparently discomfited his hosts. He stood in the chair while wearing his shoes.
The presidential office dismissed the awkwardness as inconsequential.
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He would get away with the "Shogun" comment in these modern times, especially since he said it in Polish, but standing with his shoes on a chair, and moreover on that particular chair. Eeekkkhhh...
