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As mentioned on approximately four million other websites about Japan, residents of Obama, Fukui prefecture, have been dancing naked in the streets and hula-ing their way to their local Seven Eleven for more cans of Asahi (probably) following the announcement that Barack Obama is America’s next president-elect:
Meanwhile, it is expected that John McCain is to [...]

Whenever Japan’s new prime minister, Taro Aso, is mentioned in English-language newspapers the phrases “right-winger” and “foreign policy hawk” occur with startling frequency. What has he done to deserve such infamy?
Well, Aso is a frequent visitor to Yasukuni, the shrine where many convicted Second World War war criminals are honoured, and he isn’t known for [...]