Talk:Yasuo Fukuda

message: The Super Free controversy was a news item at the time, but is no longer considered as important relative to other issues related to Fukuda's prime ministership.  Such a high-profile placement in the article, even ahead of "election" is therefore incongruous and misrepresents the relative importance of the issue.  Re-organized this section under "controversies".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.55.11.53 (talk) 13:25, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Super Free?

message: Hi TakuyaMurata, 
Sorry, but non-Japanese cannot vote for or get elected to the National Diet as per Constitution of Japan Articles 10 and 15. I think you are confused by the recent Supreme Court precedents allowing municipal governments to adapt necessary means to include tax-paying non-Japanese residents to participate in electing local officials. But this does not apply to national level. 
Insomniacpuppy 09:17, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Big oops. What was I thinking. I was thinking of Foreign-born Japanese, but they are Japanese. My apology. I'm apparently too tired. -- Taku 11:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: lol, I'm sure Alberto Fujimori had his eye on that loophole. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 04:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Japanese can't be Japanese PM

message: Like previous prime ministers, his "political career" section needs to be divided in to "Member of House of Representatives" and "Prime Minister"
so...who wants to do it :)?
--Merumerume 04:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need transition 

message: There's currently a disturbance at the current Canadian prime minister's article, Stephen Harper, regarding the inclusion of the head of state in the article's infobox, and, following that, on all previous Canadian prime ministers' articles; currently the Canadian series is the only one, as far as I can tell, where the relevant head of state is not listed in the infobox.
As this article, and all those for previous Japanese prime ministers, list the head of state in the infobox, I'm wondering how the decision to do so was reached, and if this practice should or should not be the same for all PMs' articles. It seems odd to me that one series of PM articles would be different to all the rest.
Opinions are welcome; needed actually. The discussion is taking place at Talk:Stephen Harper#Infobox -- include GG and monarch?. --G2bambino 15:45, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't contribute much to Japanese PM articles, but I don't recall any discussion on this topic. It is actually fascinating to hear that the inclusion is disputed. Since you're not quite getting response here, you might want to ask in the talkpage of Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan. -- Taku (talk) 22:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Head of state in infobox 

message: Hello friends,
Sorry to interrupt this discussion about property rights but hasn't anyone noticed that the flag in the background of this photo of the PM is the US flag. Seems rather odd to me, almost as if he were American, which he is not. It also seems rather to imply that Japan is the lacky of the US. Or is that the intention here? Better no photo at all than this one. Also, this photo must be old. Mr. Fukuda is in his seventies as I recall.  Since he is the current PM, wouldn't it be better to get a more recent photo -- if the squabble over property rights can be worked out. 
However, it is the flag in the background that strikes me as most odd...
Incidentally, I would guess that a good photo could easily be obtained from any Japanese government web site, such as that of the Prime Minister's Office or the Cabnet Office. I seriously doubt the Japanese government would object:
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
http://www.cao.go.jp/index-e.html
Regards, 
Gunnermanz
--Gunnermanz (talk) 10:54, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Background flag

message: The following was moved from the main page.
:When Fukuda was Chief Cabinet Secretary to former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, he was reported to have made highly controversial comments regarding victims of rape during an off-the-record discussion with reporters during June 2003, according to an article in the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun. The magazine quoted Fukuda as saying: "There are women who look like they are saying 'Do it to me'. Those who have that kind of appearance are at fault, because men are black panthers." In response, Fukuda claimed that the Shukan Bunshun had distorted his comments, stating that he had never intended to defend rape, and told a parliamentary panel afterwards that rape was "a criminal act and an atrocious crime"."Japan rape victims 'asking for it'," BBC News, July 3, 2003.
This looks problematic. (1) it's not a major scandal or anything, but the structure of the article gives some undue weight on this, which is problematic since he is a living person, even if the factuality of the Bunshun article is probably not in question. (2) Even though a BBC article is cited, the article basically reiterates the allegation raised by Shunkan Bunshun. In genera, we don't want to mention every single allegation ever raised in the article. Therefore, it seems to me, we should keep this controversy section here until we find more sources other than Bunshun reporting the issue. 
-- Taku (talk) 13:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: took out a line, uncited, completely out of context, grammatically incorrect, with the phrase, "and has a dog named sparky!"Devon.underwood (talk) 21:37, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: First in Japan history censure: Yasuo Fukuda was humiliated on June 11, 2008, by a censure motion passed by parliament's opposition-controlled upper house (the first in history against a prime minister under Japan's post-war constitution). Ahead of the G8 summit, it attacked his handling of domestic issues like the unpopular medical plan and called for snap polls or his resignation. The lower house’s ruling coalition, however, would pass a motion of confidence by Thursday, as counter action.news.bbc.co.uk, Censure passed against Japan PMafp.google.com, Japan PM humiliated by parliament--Florentino floro (talk) 10:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Censure motion

message: Just as a heads up, Fukuda has announced his resignation from office.      Musashi1600 (talk) 13:11, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, he announced his intention to step down an hour ago, but his term in office has not ended yet, hasn't it? He's still the prime minister until the next prime minister is elected by the members of the Diet and appointed by the Emperor. Abe also abruptly announced his resignation as prime minister, but he officially remained his position for two weeks after his announcement if I remember correctly. So may I or someone else revert this edit? --Umebo (talk) 13:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing wrong with that, since he's still in office (albeit not for much longer.)  Musashi1600 (talk) 14:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your quick response. It has been corrected by 68.190.224.129. --Umebo (talk) 14:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resignation as Prime Minister 

message: Someone has made this page extremely crass. It should be fixed soon due to it being on the front page of current events.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.237.23.171 (talk) 03:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: According to the ja-Wikipedia and other Japanese online resources (e.g. http://db.kosonippon.org/statesman/statesman_info.php?id=1557 or  http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/feature/fe5600/fe_070918_pr_fukuda.htm), Fukuda was only registered in Takasaki, but born in Tōkyō. (Even English-language Japanese government sites get this wrong because they translate 出身地 as "place of birth"/"born in ...") I don’t know if Koseki registration or actual birthplace are usually given in the en-WP, so I decided to post here instead of editing the article. --Asakura Akira (talk) 12:42, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect place of birth 

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