While the rest of the world looks in bewilderment at the never-ending legal drama surrounding the U.S. presidential election, Japan is embroiled in a struggle for its next Prime Minister. With almost a new Prime Minister each year for the past decade, Japan has gone through leaders as fast as Elizabeth Taylor went through husbands.
Japan sinks deeper and deeper into a sea of red ink.
With every new Prime Minister come new revelations of just how troubled Japan's economy is. And just as the sun sets, and rises, with every new leader comes the instant realization that nothing will be done about it. Japan and the U.S. are both witnessing the spectacle of pure, unvarnished political greed. The world's two mightiest economic democracies find themselves trapped by the refusal of their elected representatives to look no further than what is in it for them. In Florida, both George W. Bush and Al Gore have no qualms dragging a disbelieving public through the political muck of this fetid electoral swamp.