Incredibly, the Prime Minister of Japan Hatoyama Yukio and secretary general Ozawa Ichiro of the DPJ announced their resignations this week. Only nine months after the historic booting of the hated LDP -- an election triumph based in substantial part on the DPJ promise of greater separation between Japan and the increasingly despised USA -- the resignations come two weeks after Hatoyama announced his capitulation on the most important part of the DPJ promise: closing Futenma airbase on Okinawa. (Hatoyama announced it would be merely moved to another part of the island.)
Three things:
-- Japan will not be able to remove Uncle Sam's grip on its balls until it elects a female Prime Minister. If she can get over the zaibatsu-yakuza wall, the vampires in Washington will be easy pickings.
-- The 21st Century disconnect between the politics of election and the politics of governing is once again exposed. The public state has now been completely swallowed by the deep state.
-- Hatoyama Yukio remains an honorable man. After nine months of realizing Japan's locked-in, subservient relationship to the US, and not having the leadership capacity to unlock it, he resigned: to minimize dangers to his party and to his country. Compare that to one Barack Hussein Obama, the individual who not only has broken every campaign promise (implied or otherwise) he made in 2007-08, but in most cases has done the opposite of what was promised, and so has endangered the very existence of the Democratic Party (good riddance), in what is sure to be an unprecedented rout this November.
One leader is a man; and a failure. The other has made everything much worse; except for his family's wardrobe and future book deals.
