Tag Archives: hatoyama

Parallels between Troofers and Fookooshimars

You may have noticed recent stories about ex-PM Yukio Hatoyama co-authoring a report in Nature; it may be found here, with an editorial on it here. Note that Mr Hatoyama has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. The curious passage is this: And a hydrogen explosion should not have generated enough heat to [...]

When is a PM not a PM?

Mr Arudou on Thursday described Hatoyama as the "former PM" but, just as he made a mistake about not realising Aso was still PM until the Diet voted in a new PM even though he had lost the general election, Hatoyama was still PM until Friday.

Mr Arudou goes to Futenma, gets lost

Good grief, even by his usual standards, the latest Just Be Cause on Futenma is an epic fail. I don’t have time for a full analysis tonight, so here’s just the obviously wrong highlights. Oh, and although he has a "Yankee Go Home" message, the continuation "And then we’ll go all Swiss/renounce Article 9/be better [...]