I have been in Japan 2 & a half years. In that time the Prime Ministership has gone from Junichi Koizumi to Shinzo Abe to Yasuo Fukuda to (insert name here).Japan seems to have a history of changing it's Prime Minister more often than I change the... ...full story at Mottekaero
from Mottekaero on Wed, Sep 10 2008
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