Dear Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda,
The German architect Walter Gropius said, "Specialists are people who always make the same mistakes." He could have been talking about the majority of postwar Japanese prime ministers.
In your lifetime, 25 prime ministers have governed Japan, or tried to. You are the 26th.
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