September 11th Election

I like to talk about the upcoming election in Japan. As most of you know living in Japan, there is an upcoming election. The biggest topic right now is the privatization of the Postal Bank (Postoffice Bank). Most of the Japanese people deposit their money in the Postal Bank, which is currently owned by the government.

As we all know, the Japanese economic bubble from the 80's will never come back and it's time to change the old ways. Most of us don't realize that every Japanese Prime Minister are American puppets when it comes to foreign policy. So you can never believe a PM whenever he says he want to make a change when it comes to foreign policy, because the Japanese constitution is designed to follow whatever the President of the US orders. That's OK, since Japan did lose the war so there is nothing you can do to change that. That is why I never took the Japanese election seriously. Whenever my grandmother forced me to vote, I just write the easiest Japanese character available. Japanese election ballot, you have to write the name or the party out. It is not one of those punch holes like you have in America.

September 11th is the 1st time I am actually going to take this election seriously.

I am not so fond of PM Koizumi myself, but for the 1st time, I agree with him regarding one issue. If the Postal Bank is not privitized, then Japan, which is slowly recovering its recession, will go completely backwards. Why? Well the Japanese government is pocketing the Postal Bank's money, which means they are pocketing people's money. Not only the Japanese government get good paying salary, but a little kickback money at the same time for doing absolutely nothing. This is what causes recession, when hard working people deposit their money and government abuse that money. It's like spoiled Asian rich kids who abuse their parent's money when they send them off to college, while playing playstation games, chasing women or getting drunk not knowing the exact reason why their parents are investing their kids for a proper education.

Now it's all up to the Japanese people whether or not they want the government to abuse their money.