This flash movie has been at the top of former Democratic Party of Japan president Hatoyama Yukio’s home page for some time. Hatoyama also stars in the DPJ TV ad that was shown in the previous post. The only difference is that the fonts are a bit different, since I used Flash on my laptop to turn it into an .avi file, and I didn’t have the font from the original file (Y2KBug?)..blah blah.

Because (I assume) of the font switching, the Japanese characters on the flower got a little messed up. They should be (from the top, going clockwise):

官製談合 (Kansei dangou): Bid rigging
ライブドア (Raibudoa): Livedoor
BSE
弱者切捨て (Jyakusha kirisute): Not caring for the ‘weak’
耐震偽装 (Taishin gisou): Faking earthquake-proofedness

When he cuts the veins, 増税 (Zouzei), a tax increase, is destroyed.

The issues are obviously quite ‘2006′ and an update to the site is expected soon (Hatoyama’s pretty good about being on top of things like that).

Point is, I assume that the movie might be changed soon with the changing times and this is worth documenting. Hatoyama used to have a whole load of flash animations on his website. They were rich; there were animations of him driving a car and knocking Koizumi off a cliff, and such hilarity.

Just in case: In Japanese, “Hato (鳩)” means dove. “Yama (山)” of course is mountain. This helps explain why in this, and other flash animations on Hatoyama’s site (if you can find them), there are always doves and often mountains present. I don’t know what the deal is with the Pegasus; if you know, please let us in on it.