Comments on: Seijigiri #27 - The Final Night of the Diet Session, Alberto Fujimori, and Defense http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/07/01/seijigiri-27-the-final-night-of-the-diet-session-alberto-fujimori-and-defense/ Independent Podcasting from Tokyo. Featuring Seijigiri, a discussion of Japanese news and politics, as well as TPR News, our twice a week look at Japan's top stories. Thu, 22 May 2008 19:45:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: ken http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/07/01/seijigiri-27-the-final-night-of-the-diet-session-alberto-fujimori-and-defense/#comment-180703 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:13:16 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/07/01/seijigiri-27-the-final-night-of-the-diet-session-alberto-fujimori-and-defense/#comment-180703 John, they were on Friday night/Saturday morning. There were plenty of quotes in the Japanese press from lawmakers - I remember Mizuho Fukushima being very outspoken - who basically said this tactic exposed the LDP's scam. But, it was the middle of the night on a Friday night, and there won't be much left in terms of legs on Monday. The LDP won't be talking about it; they're already campaigning. John, they were on Friday night/Saturday morning. There were plenty of quotes in the Japanese press from lawmakers - I remember Mizuho Fukushima being very outspoken - who basically said this tactic exposed the LDP’s scam. But, it was the middle of the night on a Friday night, and there won’t be much left in terms of legs on Monday. The LDP won’t be talking about it; they’re already campaigning.

]]> by: John S http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/07/01/seijigiri-27-the-final-night-of-the-diet-session-alberto-fujimori-and-defense/#comment-179218 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:50:40 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/07/01/seijigiri-27-the-final-night-of-the-diet-session-alberto-fujimori-and-defense/#comment-179218 <em>As the passage of these bills effectively closes out this year’s regular Diet session in order to allow for candidates to hit the campaign trail next week, it becomes obvious that the 12 day extension of the Diet session was nothing more than a ploy to push the Upper House election back one week.</em> Wasn't this already suspected? I'm not sure why the opposition haven't been hammering away at it. As the passage of these bills effectively closes out this year’s regular Diet session in order to allow for candidates to hit the campaign trail next week, it becomes obvious that the 12 day extension of the Diet session was nothing more than a ploy to push the Upper House election back one week.

Wasn’t this already suspected? I’m not sure why the opposition haven’t been hammering away at it.

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