Hiroko’s Diary

I wonder if you ask somebody in America for instance, “who is a Japanese Prime Minister?”, how many people could answer the question.  The former Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda, resigned his post all of a sudden about 10 days ago and a presidential election will be held soon.   I don’t think fMr. Fukuda explained the reason much enough to make us understood.   What a shame it is!  He should’t have been elected in the first place.   

Whenever I listen to or read American news regarding Presidential election, I can’t help noticing a big differnece between American politicians and Japanese ones.   We can’t blame only politicians.  It seem to me that  Japanese people’s awareness toward politics is relativily low compared to people in other countries.

I prefer the American system to elect the President.   As far as we can’t participate in the election to choose the Prime Minister, it would be difficult to take a strong interest in politics.