John Roos, Ambassador to Japan!
Meanwhile, over at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they are probably crankin' it up.
Later - Lest I be seen as being too mean to the Mainichi Shimbun, I note that The Asahi Shimbun also has a history it would want us to forget.
Even later - Of course the "I trust in nothing I read until I see it on the White House website" rule applies in this instance. Akira ni natta me once, shame on you...
I understand the original post, but nothing after that. I read the Asahi Shinbun and found no history I'd like to forget. It was a basic rundown of those people and their Asia connections with the conclusion in the last sentence saying that America's Asia policy will be less of Bush-like hard power policy (no names mentioned) and more in line with with the habahiroi categories under Smart Power (the term associated with the Nye-Armitage reports as mentioned in the article). The article read more like a summarization of some CVs than a history lesson.
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ReplyDeleteWhen a major newspaper publishes an article on January 8 stating「次の駐日大使にX氏を起用する方針を固めたことが７日、明らかになった。」 only to have to report someone other than X being appointed to the post five months later, it makes the editor looks like a damn fool.
You forgot to include Yomiuri in your hall of shame.
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