Because of his maverick style, I think he's captured the imagination at this moment for the Japanese people. Now he's got three months before the upper House election. And then if he can kind of go against the expectation that the LDP was going to face an electoral disaster in July, then I think he would have a firmer political base in the LDP then to pursue the very difficult reform process in the fall. Well, the U.S. Stake is really enormous. Japan is our second or third, depending on the year, biggest trading partner.
Japan is really the central economy of the region.
And if the Japanese economy remains weak, it certainly makes our own economic recovery much more difficult. It helped us to cushion that recession and to get out of it very quickly. Now we're going into a period of very weak economic growth with this big trading nation in Asia in a very weak condition. That not only is bad in terms of bilateral trade, it makes the rest of Asia weaker, because a lot of countries sell a lot of goods to Japan. So the American stakes in Japan coming out of this period of economic weakness and resuming robust growth, the American stake is very high in that.