This happens all the time. In Israel Benjamin Netanyahu recently quit Sharon's cabinet to protest the eviction of settlers in Gaza. In Germany Gerhard Schroder recently lost a vote of no confidence. None of these things make a very big splash in the US media which lately seems to be fixated on celebrities and other trite.
As to whether Japan is a world power - economically yes ... in all other respects no. Howie --- On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:32 PM, Kevin Graeme scribed: --- > > 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get Instant Hacker Protection, Virus Detection, Antispam & Personal Firewall. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=62 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169797 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=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
