Summary: Koizumi is the FUCKING MAN! ALL HAIL KOIZUMI! BANZAI!!! BANZAI!!!

It must be nice winning an election and watching the stock market rise like this. Plus, let's face it, the Richard Gere look-alike thing was a fucking masterstroke. Interesting fact: Did you know that before the plastic surgery, Koizumi was a dead ringer for Pat Morita?

Daniel-san, you must concentrate!

Unfortunately, Japanese politics are a prime example of "the more things change the more they stay the same." For instance: Post office privatization. If you're waiting to see how this is going to directly affect your life in Japan, tell me how it turns out a couple decades from now, okay? Seriously... People who are predicting the change in interest rates for savings accounts at this point in time ARE FUCKING DELUSIONAL OR HAVE A SERIOUSLY KICK-ASS CRYSTAL BALL +7 CHARISMA. Okay?

(Note from Editor: Compulsory "Japanese erection" joke deleted.)