Candidate for my new favorite Diet member now that Koizumi has decided to stop being awesome:
Meet Etsuji Arai, LDP lower house member from Saitama’s 11th district. Doesn’t he look like a Japanese Napoleon Dynamite?
His web site address is “My Dream” – one of those English phrases that every Japanese person knows, but in Japanese rather than sounding lame, it absolutely reeks of conviction and sincerity.
As an LDP member, his basic stances should be pretty predictable, but he stands out in the following ways:
Anyway, I just liked his picture really. He is apparently very active as a new Dietman, so let’s look forward to his continued success!
But what planet is that?!
Me again.
How about a link back to the blog or post on the “comment approved” page?! 🙁