"Japan's Abe Is the World's Best Leader"

[Taka-Okami]

If left wing ideology is so great, why did Trumpy ever get elected?

What is your point?

If your not smart enough to know what the point is, then your IQ must be pretty low.

[Russell]

If left wing ideology is so great, why did Trumpy ever get elected?

What is your point?

If your not smart enough to know what the point is, then your IQ must be pretty low.

Well, then spell it out for me, and let's see how high your IQ is...

[Wage Slave]

Here's another striking image from today's press A fine looking Dutch right winger, who didn't get elected, as seen in London today to speak to a group of knuckledraggers upset because their hero doesn't know the meaning of the words contempt of court or suspended sentence.

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[Russell]

Here's another striking image from today's press A fine looking Dutch right winger, who didn't get elected, as seen in London today to speak to a group of knuckledraggers upset because their hero doesn't know the meaning of the words contempt of court or suspended sentence.

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Yep, this stuff made it even in the Dutch press.

BTW, that right winger is Wilders, and he actually got elected. But it seems his support has gradually been eroding. People get tired of his shenanigans.

[Wage Slave]

Ah, I stand corrected. He did win his seat but his party failed to get enough seats to form a part of the government - Is that right?

[Russell]

Ah, I stand corrected. He did win his seat but his party failed to get enough seats to form a part of the government - Is that right?

In number of seats, his party (PVV) is the second, after the VVD (the right-leaning liberal democrats).

But no one wants to form a coalition government with him, so he has been left out consistently. The reason is that he is considered untrustworthy.

A decade ago or so, he promised to support a minority government. He was not part of it, but in the negotiations in the formation he was promised the advancement of some policies, and in return he would give his support. Well, come what come, he didn't keep his promise, and let the cabinet fall for some kind of little silly reason. Since then he is kept out of all coalition negotiations.

[Mike Oxlong]

[Taro Toporific]

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The Last Covfefe

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[Mike Oxlong]

[Taro Toporific]

Abe looks
at the summit

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[Russell]

Didn't you notice he is in thinking mode?

And his approach appears to work better than Trudeau's...

[Mike Oxlong]

Meanwhile Mr. Singh appears to enjoy considerably more leeway than Herr Robinson.

[Taka-Okami]

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[Wage Slave]

Meanwhile Mr. Singh appears to enjoy considerably more leeway than Herr Robinson.

Mr Singh was filming during the preliminary hearing - at that stage there was no restriction. Also there were no defendants or jury members entering the court. Mr Yaxley-Lennon was filming two thirds of the way through the trial and filming and speaking to defendants. Further he was livecasting and encouraging his supporters to spread the broadcast. Mr Singh was also present during the livecast but wasn't filming as he has a brain cell or two.

The trial is still not over and is still the subject of a reporting restriction. Mr YL risked the jury being dismissed and the trial having to be restarted at huge cost. It would also mean that the victims would have to give evidence all over again and be cross examined on it. We still don't know if that is what happened as reporting restrictions are in place.

[Takechanpoo]

Shunsuke Yamaoka, 59, founder of the Japanese-language investigation website Access Journal, was left unconscious on August 7th after a 20-step fall that gave him a fractured shoulder and 20 stitches in the forehead in the stairs of Tokyo's Shinjuku subway station. The incident costed Yamaoka a day in the hospital and more than a month of recovery. The journalist is convinced that his fall was not accidental.


The independent journalist, who investigated possible links between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Japanese mafia, claims that he has received numerous threatening letters and faced an attempted fire at his house over the past years. According to Yamaoka, the police refused to launch an investigation as "there is no surveillance camera covering the area" of the incident.

https://rsf.org/en/news/japan-must-look ... -and-mafia

[matsuki]

How the fuck does any station in Shinjuku not have cameras on all the steps?

[wuchan]

A better question would be "what national level politician doesn't have ties to the yakuza?"

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

oh shit Abe is losing it https://spraguedawley.com/japan-prime-m ... cinations/

[Russell]

Anyone notices that Abe resigned today?

What a complete failure this man.

[Mike Oxlong]

It seems he just held on for the record of longest serving PM, then bailed immediately after he reached that mark. Failed economy, failed Constitutional change, failed Orympics. At least he holds a record.

[Grumpy Gramps]

One source, don't know, whether it's legit, says this:

Abe is not resigning; he is escaping.

He is under investigation by the Japanese prosecutors for violations of election laws, similar to those his former handpicked justice minister is now being tried for in the lower courts of Tokyo. Testimony in that case may implicate Abe in the political scandal as well.

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[Russell]

One source, don't know, whether it's legit, says this:

Abe is not resigning; he is escaping.

He is under investigation by the Japanese prosecutors for violations of election laws, similar to those his former handpicked justice minister is now being tried for in the lower courts of Tokyo. Testimony in that case may implicate Abe in the political scandal as well.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?

There is also the issue with Akagi-san, the official from the Finance ministry who committed suicide because he was forced to cover up Abe's corruption.

Critics slam Japan PM Abe for dodging accountability over scandals with exit decision

People raising questions over a series of favoritism scandals linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have expressed anger and frustration over his Aug. 28 announcement that he intends to leave his post for health reasons, accusing him of sweeping the scandals under the rug and evading responsibility.

One scandal relates to the heavily discounted sale of state-owned property to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen, which became public knowledge in 2017. The property in the Osaka Prefecture city of Toyonaka was sold to the Osaka-based institution with a huge discount of roughly 800 million yen (approximately $7.58 million). The Diet erupted in turmoil over the murky sale when it emerged Prime Minister Abe's wife Akie had earlier been appointed as honorary principal of an elementary school that Moritomo Gakuen was planning to open on the property. The scandal drove Abe to state during a Diet session, "If I or my wife were involved (in the land sale), I would resign as prime minister and as a Diet member."

It later emerged that documents related to the approval of the discounted deal had been doctored at the behest of the Finance Ministry. Toshio Akagi, an official at the Kinki Local Finance Bureau, troubled over being involved in the doctoring of the documents, took his own life at age 54 in March 2018.



Toyonaka Municipal Assembly member Makoto Kimura, who filed a lawsuit that led to the uncovering of the scandal, expressed frustration, saying, "I cannot accept (Prime Minister Abe's) resignation while he is turning his back on shedding light on the truth." A court ruling on the case, which found the central government's nondisclosure of justifiable grounds for offering the discount illegal, has been finalized.

"I have little choice but to suspect that the prime minister was involved in the discounting process," Kimura added.

The late local finance bureau official's 49-year-old wife, Masako, released a comment through her attorney, stating, "I would like the next prime minister to carry out fair and unbiased investigations to find out why my husband was driven to take his own life."

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[matsuki]

Abe gonna "Go to Travel" to yasukini in a box soon...

[Grumpy Gramps]

Let me guess, in a box for musical instruments?

[Mike Oxlong]

So, without the cover of the Ghosn trial, the prosecutors have to fill their time with...actual crime?

[dimwit]

And our probable next prime minister seems to have done his utmost to instigate a second wave of CV. Happy times

In its heyday, the section of Sotobori Dori running from Akasaka-Mitsuke to Toranomon once resembled the Las Vegas Strip, with glittering signs promoting cabarets and nightclubs with names like Mikado, Crazy Horse, Copacabana and Mugen. All of which are long gone.

While Shukan Bunshun (June 18) acknowledged their passing it seems that Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced on June 3 that the government was considering allowing "cabarets and other food and beverage establishments that engage in entertainment to restart their operations."

https://japantoday.com/category/feature ... s-no-sense

[matsuki]

In JGov-ben, does "cabaret" mean strip show venue? Sunakku, kyabakura or are we talkin' oppai pub or professional "health" services?

[Russell]

In JGov-ben, does "cabaret" mean strip show venue? Sunakku, kyabakura or are we talkin' oppai pub or professional "health" services?

Why do you want to know?

[matsuki]

LOL

Just keep hearing it on the news yet I've never heard the word used by a local in person so not sure what they're referring to.

[Buraku]

I still dont get it, havent read a proper explanation as to 'Why' yet....was he getting old senile, dying of the Corona or burried in a shit ton sea deep of criminality and corruption?