Sometimes journalists ask themselves questions that appear to border on the absurd. Here goes one of them.
Why is there no Japanese Barack Obama?
Obama's message of "Change we can believe in" would seem likely to appeal to Japanese people in the same way that it, apparently, is appealing to many Americans.
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