This was supposed to be a special relationship! We had a crazy first lady and an engineer for a president, I expected unicorns and magic. What am I left with now?

Most likely few, if any, of you heard about this (especially considering that North American news always forgets that there are other countries), but it’s … slightly big news over here; we have just lost our PM, Yukio Hatoyama. Earlier today he was assassinated resigned because of his handling of the Futenma (普天間) relocation. I’m going to have to explain this in more detail, aren’t I?

Probably cheering himself up by stabbing chickens.

Futenma is a US military base in Okinawa. There was an agreement back in 2006 between the US and Japanese governments. At this time, the majority party in the Japanese government was the Liberal Democratic Party (自民党). Since last year, when the Democratic Party of Japan (民主党) became the majority party, this agreement has been in shaky waters, the DPJ, Okinawans, and many other Japanese citizens didn’t really agree with the plan to keep the base on Okinawa and (with this in mind) the DPJ informed the US government that it wanted to renegotiate the already signed agreement. While the US gov’t was annoyed since this type of thing usually doesn’t happen, anywhere, I get the feeling that hardly anyone in America even knows about this.

Recently, the Japanese government (headed by Hatoyama) agreed to keep the recolcation within Okinawa, to the ire of both DPJ members and Okinawans. Since this time members of his party have been calling for the resignation of Hatoyama, which is finally here. Although, like many recent PMs, there have been some small scandals but I liked Hatoyama as a PM much more than some of the recent ones. One of his biggest issues, I feel, is that he just wouldn’t get rid of the scummy meatbag liked by very few, Ichiro Ozawa. While I don’t really know the details as to why they finally decided to keep things the way they are, I have a feeling that pressure by both the US and Ozawa could have been the cause. I would say the best thing about this resignation is that Ozawa has also resigned; may he constantly have kidney stones.

Hopefully nexty has a better fashion sense.