Taro Aso has become Japan's latest prime minister

Taro Aso
92nd Prime Minister of Japan

Aso, a Roman Catholic, was born in Iizuka, Fukuoka.^[2] His father, Takakichi Aso, was the chairman of the Aso Cement Company and a close associate of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka; his mother was Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's daughter. Aso is also a great-great-grandson of Toshimichi Okubo, and his wife is the third daughter of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki. His younger sister, Nobuko, is the wife of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, a first cousin of the Emperor Akihito.

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Higashikurume Municipal Assembly member becomes Japan's first completely blind vice speaker

Toyofumi Miyagawa, a member of the Higashikurume Municipal Assembly in western Tokyo, has become the first totally blind person to be elected vice assembly speaker.

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Who is Still the COOLEST?

You don't need to put on your sunglasses to see who is the coolest of the bunch.
Gary P takes time for his weekly nihonshoku special time with his Son Gary Jr. and fiancee, Mom and Dad and brother Steve.

Japan.

The land of the rising sun.

Mysterious…exotic...kind of far away.

Before you go too far, I've got to be honest with you.

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Ninjas aren't real.
But neither is Santa Claus,
yet I get presents.

On September 2nd 1945...a long time ago