Siren 0 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 How do you define 'win'? Link to post Share on other sites
Yes-please. 0 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Surely a win in his position would have the result of him "keeping his job". Yes, let's go for that. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 If he can limit perception of the election to a referendum on the post office, probably he can win. Polls suggest that a majority support privatisation, and Koizumi's ratings jumped when he announced he would 'take it to the country'. However, when other political issues are taken into account he doesn't look nearly so good. Another aside on Horie - do the people who admire Horie actually vote? I wonder about that... Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Koizumi san himself will win without my vote anyway... I don't know I'm going to vote or not this time. Link to post Share on other sites
yamayamayama 2 Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 How come you're not voting slow - apathy or you really just don't like any of them? Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 I know Koizumi san will win in my local district for sure. If I can choose a party for Hireiku, I may vote. Actually, I don't expect so much in Japanese politics. Things like the asbestos, we have known about it's risk many years ago, but why is it big news here in Japan now?? Why trusting citizens have to suffer from cancer because of our government's fault?? I think I should learn more about democracy and capitalist economy. Link to post Share on other sites
ProbablyaCrazyPerson 2 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Anyone watch the 2 hour debate yesterday? I wanted to catch it (honest!) but couldn't. Link to post Share on other sites
mina2 6 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Hold on a sec. Just watching the news and that Livedoor bloke was on there looking like he was campaigning... whos he campaigning for?? Link to post Share on other sites
Siren 0 Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Like everyone else in the circus, him(her)self. Link to post Share on other sites
KlingKlang 1 Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Horie running for election? That bloke doesn't seem to be able to sit still for a minute. -- Kamei's candidacy is grabbing attention all the more because Takafumi Horie, president of ambitious Internet service Livedoor Co. is running as an independent from the same district. Horie supports Koizumi's postal privatization plan, although he is not running on an LDP ticket. "Postal privatization is the first step to reforms," Horie said in Onomichi. "I am fighting politicians who tried to postpone these reforms." Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I watched some of that on tv last night. It showed Horiemon (?) being chased by a gang of (what looked like) fit OL's singing his name to the Doraemon theme tune. Weird. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 And something I just read on CNN which is worth a read http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/international/asia/07letter.html?8hpib Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 "I watched some of that on tv last night. It showed Horiemon (?) being chased by a gang of (what looked like) fit OL's singing his name to the Doraemon theme tune. Weird." Uhh does anybody have this online? Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 i question a party`s commitment to democracy (much less `liberal` democracy) when they have kept themselves in power for pretty well the whole post-war period. I don`t believe change will come from within. Link to post Share on other sites
base40 0 Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I just wish they'd shut up. It's not as if they're saying anything useful. Link to post Share on other sites
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