Saturday, June 23, 2007

A Politician from a Wrestler Decided to Retire in Just One Term. Don't Wanna be an Election Tool. --From Japan

Atsushi Onita who was a popular wrestler among youngsters at that time and became a politician decided to leave the ring without seeking the seat in the coming election.

He said, "the election of the House of Councillors is not a tool to collect popularity for the office of Prime Minister".

Ruling party, Liberal Democratic Party, started to use famous people to collect votes since 2001 when the system that people can vote writing an individual name was established.

Japanese citizens also know that almost all of those politicians called, "talent members", have done nothing except for collecting votes.

It will be true that government more than the standard of citizens is not established. Because citizens tend to vote for the celebrities without thinking about what they can do for citizens, government has applied the method.

LDP is trying to recruit a famous ex-teacher called, "Yankee Teacher" in the coming election.

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