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Smashing to see Japan’s prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, following the example of The Queen and getting hip to the kids’ jive by promoting himself on YouTube. Also to hear him gamely speaking in English for 5′ 33″ – not effortlessly (though who am I to talk?), but gamely nonetheless. Anyone who makes his debut on the Interweb with a quotation from the early 20th century novelist, Natsume Soseki, also demands respect. “It seems as if everything is being destroyed, and – at the same time – as if everything is being built anew.”

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admin @ February 8, 2008

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