Um the Japanese Post Office is not a minor thing. Its sort of like the BBC, the Postal System and a couple of major banks rolled into one. What Koizumi wants to do is to break it up and privatize the remains. This is big news in Japan.
As for how the US reacted, well its typical of the US - its always thought that the world ends at its borders. In essence the US ethos thinks that nothing is as important as its own navel, or butt as you would have it. That is of course until something happens and bites the US in its ass. larry On 8/16/05, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So there's been a minor tussle recently in Japan's government. It's a > little thing, revamping the postal system, that sort of blossomed into > something that is threatening the sitting party, has seen Prime > Minister Koizumi dissolve the House of Representatives, and apparently > caused one politician to commit suicide. > > The intersting thing to me isn't the politics itself. It's that it > made nary a blip on our media. In the US we are inundated with > political infighting, and from what I occasionally see in the foreign > media it spills over to other countries too. But we hear > diddley-bupkiss in the headlines here about a political situation in > Japan that could be a major power shift. > > So why is that? Is it that we're so focused on ourselves that we don't > have time for other country's issues unless we're going to war with > them? Is Japan not really a significant world power? > > It's just curiosity.. I've just recently been reading blogs and news > from Japan and I've been feeling a disconnect in what I read there and > what I read in US news and see in all the debating here. It really is > like it's a world apart. > > -Kevin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169783 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
