The Eye of Patrick

Fushimi Inari, 2006. 

It seems there has been updates on Justice Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his claim of being friends with a friend who has friends in Al Qaeda. In my last post i mentioned the Minister of Justice who claimed that he had a friend who was friends with someone in Al Qaeda and that they had warned him about some attacks. But after the media picked up the story and people started to question him more, he gave up and said “I myself am not a friend of anyone who is thought to be a member of [al-Qaeda] and I don’t know them personally. I can’t verify the authenticity of what my friend said.”.

Though over the weekend he was found to say “all my statements about public safety have been totally devoid of lies.” And so it seems that the the episode will start up again. Which is a good thing as it will make the minister look more of like an idiot and hopefully make it less likely that they stupid new immigration policy of taking photos and scanning finger prints of all foreigners will die. Though that is more of an impossible dream.

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Took this photo in November 2006 at Fushimi Inari.