Another Career Plan Squashed
The main reason I had never run for Congress was that it seemed like the sort of career that might at times interfere with my drinking schedule. In Tokyo -- where it's pretty common to see businesspeople utterly mashed on Friday nights near the bars of Kabukicho, Shibuya, or Ikebukuro -- I had always figured I'd actually make a pretty good Diet member. But the debate surrounding last Friday's Lower House session indicates that Japan has become a killjoy. I suspect they've been hanging out with us for too long. The reassuring part is that the LDP -- having been accused by the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, of being drunk -- responds by saying, "No, you're drunk."
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