Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, rear center, speaks during a ceremony to launch a special intelligence unit at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday
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MikeRowave
Are on something? Bi/tri-lingual politicians in Japan? Yeah, right.
nandakandamanda
Even so, if South Korea has has just captured four Indonesian Al-Nusra Jihadis then you have to seriously wonder for a moment about who indeed might be in Japan...
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/12/09/2015120901067.html
Aly Rustom
They're still looking for an individual with that so please post your resumes.
nath
I'm amazed they have that many. Just seems like a token gesture, and as Viking says, is only there to hold the doors or make drinks.
Wc626
LoL, I was thinking the same. If anything, they probably excel in political science and are bi / tri-lingual.
btw, love those suits.
descendent
All these people will be doing is reading and coordinating the forwarding of email alerts from foreign (US) intelligence.
CrazyJoe
Resurgence of the Tokkō (Thought Police).
GW
Depressing, cant see this doing much good, more likely the opposite I am afraid!
FightingViking
@PTownsend
I didn't even notice her ! But now that I have, I wonder if she's only there - sitting right at the back - because her job is to "open the door" for the men ?
jerseyboy
PT -- thought the same thing. But I think the answer is simply that in Japan, only men can possess "special intelligence".
WarwickNchuaa
Is it just me, or does anyone else sense a resurgence of the Kempeitai in the wind?
nakanoguy01
if the camer is facing him, is suga really in the "rear"?
sighclops
Check out that age & gender diversity!
papigiulio
No smart / special young people?
crustpunker
Wha, if any special background to they have? Who are these faceless specialists?
PTownsend
Interesting that in the picture there's only one woman shown as having the required special intelligence. Is she the role model for womenomics the panel's looking for?
smithinjapan
Suga: "Now, we know you guys are all doing double jobs as Lawmakers, and that's hard, or that you are retired from various fields and have been waiting for a new job like this, but lets form some great panels to think about intelligence!"
fuzzycuffs
Did they have this meeting in a storage room or something?
albaleo
MIB. The best of the best of the best.
SenseNotSoCommon
and special uniform, it appears.
Yubaru
Then why is Suga talking to them?