Day at the office

"I can smell China"

Boy they were right, the lower house does stink!

why such a HUGE picture?>_.

I am a man. Just a simple man. If you cut me will I not bleed? Will that blood not be red (with a blue tint)? Why JT, why then do you give us (men) this so large picture of old Japanese politicians and yet on another part of the site you present us with this tiny little picture of Koda Kumi? Do you do this to be cruel? Are you trying to teach us that lust is a bad thing? But it isn’t lust, I promise you it isn’t, it is the appreciation of all things of beauty, well alright, maybe there is just a little hint of desire there, but not lust, no, no lust. Do any of us, including you, really care about these old men in suits and what they look like? We know the names, we really, really don’t need to know what they look like. I am sure their mums are really proud to see their little boys getting their pictures in the news, who knows, maybe their wives are happy too, well maybe. But we men are simple creatures we have simple pleasures and ask little, well not little pictures, big pictures yes, but little in the more general sense. Please, it’s the beginning of the week, for some it will be a hot hard working week, please be kind and swap these picture over, please?

Meh, picture of the day is picture of the day it could be a photo of goldfish for all I care. That being said this is a picture, while boring, dull, and lifeless... its still a picture.

But that dried nostril fluid (or booger as we prefer to say) must be pretty annoying for him to twist up his nose like that.

They all look like they don't like their jobs, and they are bored stiff doing it. Glad these old fools are in control of the world's second (or perhaps now third) largest economy.

Was this photo really necessary?

A very disgusting habit in his country by males in public, booger mining. If this picture was any larger it would top the Shibuya Station Square crosswalk video monitor.

And the guy next to the nose holder is sound asleep. Ah well, another day in paradise.

grafton:

Why JT, why then do you give us (men) this so large picture of old Japanese politicians and yet on another part of the site you present us with this tiny little picture of Koda Kumi?

For god's sake, quit whining! If you want bigger photos of half naked women or even naked women, just go to other websites. The internet is full of them.

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My only 2 cents would be.... you cannot possibly take anything serious in this country... from the geezer guv guy to the J pop girl singing a song.... either way they are both people in the morning. He scratches his balls when he wakes up, lights a cigarette, says shoganai to himself and ponders on another boring day in political Japan. After all is said and done, there is a lot more said than done. Ya know, indeed there are tons of anti Americans on this site but at least US politicians get up on the floor and speak their minds.... one guy recently called Obama a lier in front of Congress "You lie!" I just wish these DIET guys woke up literally and spoke their minds, and the hell with tatemae and honne- its time to get down with issues. I disagree- this photo might be large with oyaji, but some of us want to see Japan Today.... I could give f all about the talents and average bodies that guys go nuts about when they are plastered all over the country anyway, who are no more talented than any other Jill, Jane and Yuki on the street. Good job JT.

Each one of those MInisters has a staff of two or three on "standby", sometimes through the night, ready to prepare an answer for any question that may come there way. The bureaucrats just don't trust them to say anything...

And you wonder why there is so much overtime in Ministries, much of it unpaid.

All of those ministers are a bunch of jokers who doesnt really care about the economy. All they care about it their paychecks. Just look at the picture. They sure dont look enthusiastic about bring in this meeting.

Darkroom processing world affairs !

And the guy next to the nose holder is sound asleep

In my first years in Japan I was always told Japanese men close their eyes in meetings to "actively listen". That myth held until I asked one of the active listers ... he was .... well his mind was somewhere else ...