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Japanese Prime Minister To Step Down
From Bloomberg:
Ichiro Ozawa, secretary-general of
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s party, asked Hatoyama
to step down from his post, Yukio Ubukata, vice secretary-
general of the party said in a TV Asahi program today. Ubukata
said he expects both to resign before an upper house election
next month. Hatoyama refused to resign during a meeting of
senior party officials yesterday, Kyodo News reported.
As this action will likely lead to Yen weakness, and thus Euro strength, the most likely result will be a green close for the Nikkei, once again indicating that politically destabilizing fundamentals don't matter to C++.
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Holy s**t!
Indeed. Didn't see this one coming.
Two world leaders bail in one week, and think who else in on the fence quiting too.
Do they see the mother-of-all economic s**tstorms about to break? Are these resignations just so they can say "It wasn't on my watch."... a vain attempt to preserve political viability for when (if) the storm ends?
Well, the German president is not a "world leader". When PM Merkel goes, we got something. Still, the Japanese PM is a big deal and there are lots of changes occurring rapidly.
What Japanese leader "bailed"? Ichiro Ozawa announced through a minion the resignation of Japan's nominal "leader".
if one was a conspiracy theorist, one might theorize that the US staged/allowed the NK ship sinking in order to scare the japanese into letting us keep our base in okinowa. the PM ran on the platform of removing the base. he caved, and now must resign. don't cross uncle sam!
i reccomend the book nemisis by chalmers johnson regarding the decades of conflict over the base. amazing book on many levels, esp. in re imperial overreach.
Why would you accept without question opinions on Japan of an academic who reads no Japanese at all?
Here comes the cavalry...watch the whole thing. Comic relief from Japan. Just give it time...right near the end is the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuumGX-6uc
Don't believe. He didn't step down. He ran for cover. Nikei is going to crash.
Close. Downgrade coming. When JGBs get dinged, it's all over.
They are going to have to get the entire country to grab their cameras and go click click click the marines to death to get em out.
Use big flash bulb an give them skin cancer.
Well, the fact is the recently voted in Japanese leader has shamed himself and, as an extension, his own country and people who trusted him. So it does not surprise me that those around him want to leave his side. Dishonor lasts a lifetime in Asian culture. American leaders, both in politics and financial, could learn quite a bit from this.
This shame is not financial, it is that the new leader ran on various platforms and promises, one of which he broke was the removal of the American base within Japan. The Japanese people are tired of Americans raping women and the elevated crime rate near the USA military base.
What a happy coincidence! A lot of the american people are sick and tired of the U.S. military maintaining more bases than necessary.
Agreed, yet tell that to the leaders and see what actions are taken. When the rubber meets the road, the politicians do what they do despite any campaign promises or the desires of their people.
You are, unfortunately, absolutely right.
Dr. Evil's Gestapo troops do not take orders from anyone except Dr. Evil.
Dr. Evil's Puppets do not take orders from anyone except Dr. Evil.
Although the troops and puppets are US in name, they belong to Dr. Evil by contract.
And so do you.
The country is divided into two kinds of people:
1) the people in a politician's district where a base is located (or in a contributor's) who vote for him,
2) the people outside his district who gain nothing by his candidacy, cannot vote for him, and in fact lose money and power by him winning.
(See: Murtha, Kennedy, Byrd, McConnell, Frank, Dodd ad nauseum)
That is the fatal flaw in Republican government. And why it ultimately fails, epically.
There is another way to divide up people, per Divine, "There are two kinds of people in this world, my kind and assholes." Gotta love Divine.
To say nothing of the cost involved in keeping that base over there. Let's see how good that economy looks when they either have to keep their own military or learn to speak Chinese.
raping women, that was a funny joke hu hu..
That sure didn't take much. Too bad it wasn't that simple in Thailand.
At least their leader has honour.
It's gonna take hours for consultants to explain this to Rahm and Barack.
"But-but . . he was the prime minister!"
"Yes, Mr. President. But it didn't mean anything without honor."
"5hit like this doesn't happen in Chicago!"
"No, Mr. Emmanuel."
"You don't just give up something like that without getting something back! I mean, what the fvck! What'd he get in return?! There had to be SOMEthing, not just this . . honor stuff, whatever that is!"
"I think I saw it on the teleprompter once, Rahm."
"Well, you're not gonna see it again, and that means you'll never say it! We're not giving this 5hit up for anything, least of all some . . what'd you call it, professor?"
"A-a personal code of behavior demanding honest and forthright behavior even when repercussions for misbehavior would not follow."
"Yeah, that's the 5hit I'm talking about! I'll have Axe or Plouffe write a program to exclude that word from the teleprompters. It ain't on them, it aint in this administration!"
yes, but has he retained his honor?
They want us gone.
We are spending $26b annually defending them against what, exactly?
I see a way for everyone to win.
Japan being disarmed is national policy since WWII. Given the chance, I am sure they could build some hellacious war machines now.
.
How do you know that Japan has no "hellacious war machines" now?
Yeah, haven't you ever been to Harajuku on a Sunday afternoon?
Okinawa is our largest base in the pacific. you could say we are defending them from NK and China, but really we are using it for force projection. just like we use our german bases to project force.
imperialism bitchez
+1 you are so right
PS: Nice to see AP News being only a mere 12 hours LATE on this:
Japan's ruling party scrambled to find a new leader after Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned Wednesday, apologizing for failing to keep a campaign promise to move a contentious U.S. military base, as his party desperately tried to boost its chances in elections next month.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37459712/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
ZH ROCKS!!!
Evidently US enlists many vicious prurient Mexicans and Africans who not only rape Celts or Germans at home (US) but Okinawans overseas.
Damn, there's alot of folks stepping down and taking cover..
At this rate, the new guy should keep all his belongings in a box. They're not lasting too long.
And yes, Yen futures are heading south right now. Or, collapsing.
Even the euro is up against the yen right now.
FYI
I wouldn't recommend using your pic as an avatar.
You, know .... its not really that safe to be recognized as ZHer ..... yet
baby, what's wrong tonight.
can't sleep, got pain
wish i could help.
i like maya, that's kind of me.
the buddhism maya, female.
Maya is the name of the mother of the Buddha.
i l l u s i o n, is nice.
but we are living inside the illusion and bear the fruits of our actions there.
see your a teacher.
O K A Y f u c k y o u
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nd13ARuvVE
got junked in two minutes times.
What's up with the left tit? Don't be shy...
an imbalance
left high†
the left arm, surrender
ps honest i check out ZH bio'd, the bolder, the longer time ZH membership duration.
just an observation, mind you. details, it is all in the details. longevity counts†
Here you go, something to calm you down a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st737l3xl54
she says N O O O O O, no no
that 's not what i need right now.
just have to pull out my tool, way to many times, lately.
splendor in the grass sexual repression.
it's ok i can handle it by myself.
r i c o c h e t
word of the day
i am getting so junked, tonight.
ok maybe it helped,
calming actually. thanks.
-------------> direct remedy.
i like it.
like the young guy.
listen and go bye bye†
young guys are in love with me or im sorry my track bike.
loads of looks. i think it is the frame pump.
ok i give it up to you, that was fairly climatic kind of music.
don't know if i would have it on my ipod.
the moment was right, though. settled a bit better.
took the fight out of me for tonight†
try this also.
it takes some time to get used to listening classical music, but once it takes you in; you will become a fan of it.
develop your taste in music [it will help with the thinking process] since most of the 20th and 21st century "music" is shit i would not play Manuel Noriega from a Chevy WWII siren.
no, it is a mature sound, cheeky.
kinda grew up with it, i am a bit of a rebel.
SOUND SYSTEMS have always been pivotal, in my adventures, i mean life,
Y O U R S†
cheeky, you charmer.
far from ....
i just like good music.
no doubt brother man. maybe you can send some romantic links to the former PM to dance with his pillow too. the otaku PM is more...
he will prolly fuck that pillow after he comes home from a karaoke party and a sake binge.
then, its seppuku bitches !!! followed by tentacle porn.
your knowledge is impressive. have you seen legend of the overfiend? early 90's manga tentacle pornish stuff. was my introduction to japanese culture in high school.
it is also perfectly legal to posess and read child porn (though producing it is illegal) on the subway in japan. and its only illegal after years of lobbying from uncle sam. yakuza's biggest income stream.
strange place...
2 nukes in span of 3 days do that to a nation.
there's still some residual shock left and that is how they deal with it.
S T O P I T G U Y S
eh, i think that is some of it, but i think it is more of the post war capitalism salaryman way of life that has lead to a lot of social isolation, suppressed sexuality... its actually quite sad when people are so lonely they marry inanimate objects....
F U C K Y O U
what about the sound system?
this is very important to me.
don't answer V E L O B L A D E †
strikes.
i need to know about the sound system.
else, over.
What goddamn sound system.
I have my Sennheiser HD 800 on.
This kind of music necessitates privacy and total absence of other noises; hence the headphones.
ya got an edge, babe†
Try the Sonata No. 15 in all its entirety. A peaceful ride in the country if you close your eyes.
That's no good reason to hide it or anything, let it enjoy the fresh breeze too. Some details count, for a while, but in the end it is the whole, as it is, without much thinking, that matters a lot more.
like the eyes,
C A T eyes, nice.
don't hide, no claim on my side.
not much thinking here either, got that right.
i do breeze, lots and lots of breeze between these two ears†
I don't think they use C++ in the algos. Just some Java...
I don't even think they use C++, they must be using C, much faster and algo oriented... Java?? u kiddin me bro?
C on solaris, Sh** fast
I have to second Java. Over at monster and craigslist a lot of java programmer jobs are for finacial institutions.
Multithreading all the way, f# for high order destruction.
The biggest problem with Java is that you'd lose vital milliseconds to unpredictable GC pauses.
"Them" being The Boyz that never loses on a trade, at all, one assumes they pay for an "orderly execution of trades" a few millis here and there matters not one bit when one can simply inject orders into the stack at any position required .... Quality Of Service OIW - This Ensures that GS buys before everyone else and unloads on everyone else too.
Sayonara Hatoyama-san.
A lot of people stepping down as of late.
Fire in the hole!
He can take his finance minister with him...
ROR.
He now be so ronery; no ?
That is funny on so many revers!
Nicely played, wine through the nose.
he had to step down to take car of bidness. look at this dude gropin the PM's girl!!
http://en.akihabaranews.com/14177/misc/makura-the-otaku-s-favourite-cushion
Today's news from Japan
Following the financial problems in the Greece , uncertainty has now hit Japan
In the last 7 hours Origami Bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches. Yesterday, it was announced that Karaoke Bank is up for sale and will likely go for a song, while today shares in Kamikaze Bank were suspended after they nose-dived.
Samurai Bank is soldiering on following sharp cutbacks, Ninja Bank is reported to have taken a hit, but they remain in the black. Furthermore, 500 staff at Karate Bank got the chop and analysts report that there is something fishy going on at Sushi Bank where it is feared that staff may get a raw deal .
+100 lol's
Amazing post! Amazing!!! Great humor.
PURE.FUCKING.WIN.
+ 10 ^100000
a classic
LMAO!
Very witty. It's better to laugh, than cry....
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the Japanese markets down
Helpless people on pension plans
Scream for God as he changes his stand
He promises a plan to throw the bums out
Buy the gringos scream "nay!" and the minister pouts
Oh, no, they say he's got to go
Go, go, Godzilla
Oh, no, there goes Tokyo
Go, go, Godzilla
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men, Godzilla
The Forex Megadroid Gridbot players have been massacred the last few days.
I wonder if the Japanese Housewives have the same stomach for currency trading like the good old days....
robo here you are right under my ,,,,,,,...... i left this message was trying to track you down.
damn another skinny ass, sensing you like dark black hair woman with really small waistlines, and larger you know what'sssssssss.
by velobabe
on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 19:24
#388369
robo, your like daddy took the T-bird away, not fun anymore.
W H A T H A P P E N E D
right inner arm tat.
i gota say her's probably beats mine, bigger, probably better, but i am an athlete and those would probably get in the way of my golf swing.
small waist, though7
did your after hours s p r e a d
get banned†
I've been working on an outdoor job from hell.
Its taking me forever to finish it.
Hopefully I can start writing again during market hours soon, but not until I'm finished with this job.
w h a t painting/home improvements, your mother's home.
wear a mask, robo protect your lungs.
i got junked 3 times.
is it my picture or content†
what do you want to bet, my posts will be gone by tomorrow.
Dress down the picture - and don't worry about the content.
I DON'T DO DRESSES†
i'm pretty sure you could make some decent loot with a website for ZH'ers to ogle. 40 pixels is just to small...
oops
who cares about loot.
this ZH is as good as it gets.
H O N E S T†
Hey velobabe, where are the nudes? A/S/L? lol
"I DON'T DO DRESSES†"
Fair enough. Personally, I have always considered thigh highs and a pretty garter belt to be just about right - with heals, of course. Black.
Oh, was Hatoyama the prime minister this week? So hard to keep track...
Another reason to sell gold as it is down $2.
What a joke. No fundamentals at all, anymore. Just algos.
In honor of Japanese weirdness, we pay homage to Big Man Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyXkY3wgjSE
Great post. Thanks. Enjoyed the video. Which one was the Prime Minister?
What's the deal with treasuries tonight? Is it yen related?
For the prime minister to be asked to step down is a big thing. I don't know about everyone here, but I'm getting this funny feeling that things are lining up for a major blow to happen to the world paradigm.
+1. Very nerve racking. It's like it is beginning to spin out of control.
japan is a rudderless mess. this will not make as much difference as people think. not great for the markets perhaps, but LDP returning to power is a return to the status quo ante.
uncle sam needed more compliant lackeys.
I meant, as I think BJ did, the bigger picture.
i hear what you are saying, but this is actually a reversion to a more predictable path.
i totally agree that everything else is going down in a flaming shitpile.
Campaign promises are what sleazebag politicos say to get elected. They are not real nor are they intended to indicate that anything will ever change. Foolish Japanese people.
"Did someone say World War Three? I'm outta here!"
The clueless Japanese public actually believe they will be allowed to escape from the US orbit. They have never been shown all the agreements the US and Japanese governments have signed. The elite who really rule Japan are kept in power by the US. The politicians are puppets just like here. If this guy had not relented he would have suffered a "heart attack" like numerous prior prime ministers.
The USA pushes the threat of Russia, China and NK to Japan. This will not fly for long since China is now the largest trading partner of Japan as well as the Taiwanese. Japan and Taiwan will be begging for Chinese "investment" when their aging demographics wipe out their wealth and the US is blocking access to critical resources.
spot on anarchist.
now i assume our military goodies we send to taiwan have already been sent to the mainland for inspection, but once they get back together, PRC is gonna have all the goodies.
The colonial relationship between Japan and US is clear and simple: Japan exports capital and high-value-added goods to US while US exports debt and raw materials to Japan, Japan buys US debt while US protects Japan's commodity routes, Japan provides high-tech components while US provides lo-tech assembly plants and marketing support. The colonial relationship between Japan and US is evidently similar to the relationship between UK and Australia in 19th and 20th century: Australia exported raw wool to UK while UK exported textiles, UK exported capital while Australia provided protection for trade routes and colonies (Gallipoli, Transvaal). US is not only not "blocking access to critical resources" but rather guaranteeing access with US soldiers.
Can we finally get Kroakie outta the bars now?
One Down In Europe one down in Japan - Hmmm - I smell something beginning with D
Wish I could retire to the farm but alas I have to watch a train wreck.
i just have to say tyler, that whole c++ comment is really funny.
Yes, I enjoyed that too..
Guys
The NIKKIE is up, not much, but some. The Japanese are the luckiest people in the world.
Their politicians resign, instability ensues and their markets go UP!! That is outfucking standing!
Sit down... and write two letters!
who is the asshat that is junking every single comment?
I think Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama finished off a bottle of Saki and took a visit to ZH.
Where is Geopol when you need him? How ominous is this exactly?
sorry to be a buzzkill, but not too ominous. uncle sam didn't like this upstart whippersnapper and will reinstall LDP.
don't worry, we still have ME war, oil spills, market turmoil, double dips and a summer of euro riots coming up.
the show that never ends
The move to resign feels contrived, and contrived always feels ominous to me.
I hope you like ominous and are prepared for ominous. Because it's coming.
After WWII, Japan has been a US colony. Plain and simple. One visit (and I've done many) will tell you that in an instant.
Surreal nation. The rest of the world's Iceland, waiting to ex/im-plode. (pun in ten did).
Think about it, one of the last PM's was "loved" because he was a huge Manga fan.
Save spending tie there, everything you've been taught to believe about Japan is probably false. Plus, the US has been force-feeding them beef (read My Year In Meats) for 70 years now. Scary. Men are not men there anymore and neither are the women women. It is all one huge fantasy land.
The land of the rising sun is going to go dark soon.
Scary.
Their pacifism is a lie. They have supremacist DNA. Think they are better than the world. And they love to punish and be punished (remember Nanking?).
All Kabuki for the last century, american influenced Kabuki since 1945...
Now Kabooomi!
Sayonara indeed.
By the way, will a sinking yen help or hurt the Yen carry unwind? It's all relative now, I guess. I'm your uncle!
I didn't know about Nanking, but after reading the wiki I do now know what you are talking about. In war there are, by definition, countless acts of violence that are awful (which is why they are best avoided, for everyones sake). It seems to me that in war, the Japanese are at least as vicious as anyone else, perhaps more so.
Are you a congressional staffer?
Do tell. you went on wiki and came up with that gem of an epiphany in contribution?
Try not to squeeze so hard. I would recommend a 'book', indeed, books.
In addition, I would highly recommend traveling, some introspection and perhaps even killing something; and I mean really do it, tap into it, even a bug. You may have to do this more than once.
Maybe then you can lecture on 'acts of violence' and enlighten everyone on the nature of human behavior 'in war' (and by all means, how 'for everyones sake' (sic) war is 'best avoided') and those 'vicious' slant-eyed savage Japs.
Er, ok. One at a time then.
1. No, not a congressional staffer. You knew that already.
2. I am aware of books.
3. I have travelled. I have killed things, repeatedly. Can't say I like it.
4. It wasn't a lecture, it was a comment.
So... do you actually disagree with what I've said? Or just feel like putting me down?
no put-down per se, if you like, you may take congressional aide as a complement.
res ipsa loquitur.
So in fact you have nothing to contibute. Glad we clarified that.
forgot the excact title, but theere is an amzing book (pretty sure called "the rape of nanking"), not a brutally long read, but the details were insane. brothers forced to rape mothers, daily bayoneting contests of chinese civilians, the results of which were printed in japanese newspapers....
Aren't these "Nanking" books all written by Americans who use hearsay as evidence?
More fallout from the ever reaching tentacles clawing away at nations by the US EMPIRE.
Empire is killing the US, and it's taking down half the world (economically and militarily) along with it.
Few Empires have gone down without a whimper. The "Empire" is not just one country. It includes the US, England and Western Europe. The goal of all countries in the "Empire" is to cause chaos in the remains of the Soviet block and limit growth of the developing world. You will see many insurgencies funded by the west pop up in South America, Africa, Asia, China ..etc. If the west loses control of the worlds resources, it is doomed to decline. The US is goiing to find that having the worlds best Navy did not forstall the decline of past Empires like Spain and England or for that matter Japan.
I agree. It's often seen in terms of "Anglo-American" empire.
But all things must come to pass.
Nothing on the cause why this guy failed in his endeavour.
What happened? Did he try at least?
Sounds to me strange that a country cannot remove a foreign military base from his territory.
What do you honestly think happened?
Political pressures (mostly from outside) coupled with the (all too timely) Cheonan sinking. I bet some arms were twisted, and some politicians were bribed and/or threatened.
What I find most hilarious is that it once again shows up "modern democracies". The will of the people of Japan cannot even be enforced when they elect a man who promises them what they want and wishes himself to carry it out, and in the end fails. What of democracy now then?
I dont know what happened. That is why I asked. I am surprised by the lack of how it happened. As no explanation of the how was of no interest.
This does not look like a trivial issue.
Japanese elected this guy on ground he would fulfill their wish to remove a military base.
The base is a US military base. The US is a country who keeps repeating that the outcomes of an election should be respected.
On this ground, the US should have received the message Japanese want to get rid of the base.
It didnt look like an exaggerated promise, one you know from the start could not be delivered. Japan is a democracy.Japan is on good terms with the US. Japan wanted a US base to be removed.
It is not how being naive or something. But this case looks like a major structural malfunction. Suming up the event to a guy was elected to remove a military base, he failed, he resigned is pretty thin.