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Finally, it is a reproach to the Japanese press, and another example of the emasculating effect of
Japan's system of reporters' "clubs". It took too long to out poor old Charles Kennedy as a problem
drinker, and he was merely the leader of a small British opposition party. Japan's political journalists
all knew about Mr Nakakgawa's partiality, and they all chose not to report it. They may claim that
it did not matter as long as he was doing his job. But the truth, I believe, has more to do with
a widespread and lamentable reverence for authority, and the fear of losing future access to
power by exposing it.
There he sat, slurring and sighing, barely able to keep his eyes open, missing questions and muddling
his facts. And no one dared to ask the simplest question of all: "Minister, are you drunk?"
http://timesonline.typepad.com/times_tokyo_weblog/2009/02/shoichi-nakagaw.html Finally, it is a reproach to the Japanese press, and another example of the emasculating effect of
Japan's system of reporters' "clubs". It took too long to out poor old Charles Kennedy as a problem
drinker, and he was merely the leader of a small British opposition party. Japan's political journalists
all knew about Mr Nakakgawa's partiality, and they all chose not to report it. They may claim that
it did not matter as long as he was doing his job. But the truth, I believe, has more to do with
a widespread and lamentable reverence for authority, and the fear of losing future access to
power by exposing it.
There he sat, slurring and sighing, barely able to keep his eyes open, missing questions and muddling
his facts. And no one dared to ask the simplest question of all: "Minister, are you drunk?"