Kinda funny while Hanaoka(former head of politics department of Sankei,and currently a “guest”editor)openly supports APA and Tamogami,the other Fuji-Sankei branch,FUJI TV’s late night NEWS JAPAN was making criticism on Tamogami as “unsuitable for the man of such high ranking”.

http://www.asahi.com/national/update/1201/OSK200811300062.html

Apparently, several of the contest judges were really miffed at how Motoya ran things… Of over 400 entries, the company only sent the four-member panel 25 for the first round of anonymous scoring. Motoya himself was apparently on the panel (though APA did not list him as a judge), and he gave the top score to Tamogami’s (anonymous) essay while giving low scores to all the others. In the second round of judging, the names and profiles of the contestants were revealed and the judges met to discuss the winner. Three essays, including Tamogami’s, had the same number of points. Motoya apparently proposed that they just give the prize to Tamogami and award a kind of tied-for-second prize to the others. None objected.

Apart from Motoya, the judges named in the report:

Shuichi Yamamoto, a former Diet member’s secretary and current legal scrivener and guest lecturer in Okayama Prefecture.
Nobuaki Hanaoka, conservative commentator
Kazuo Komatsuzaki, President of (Yomiuri affiliated) Hochi Shimbun

Apparently the fourth judge was Motoya, but I can’t tell for sure by the way the report is written.

Anyway,my fear was that this dual citizenry issue came from nobody but half assed liberal like Kono,which only adds more fuel to the issue.
That’s why I keep telling,no constitutional revision,no open immigrant….

Blows my mind to think that the everday people I meet could unload a real truckload of raw sewage from their mouths if they said what they really think.