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Kan versus Ren Ho: Japanese versus people

I don’t know how many people picked up on this, but on Sunday night’s press conference, Prime Minister Kan spoke about how the Japanese (日本人) can work through this disaster, but Ren Ho, the new minister for power cuts, spoke about the people or citizens, 国民. I’m sure people can read a subtext into the [...]

Ren Ho is a half

I found it quite entertaining that the new half Taiwanese-Japanese cabinet member, Ren Ho, was described by Mr Arudou as first multicultural then as multiethnic, which seems both rather clumsy and perhaps not very accurate for a woman who went through the rather posh Aoyama School and University from kindergarten to university. Curiously enough, she [...]