"Biting Comments, Curious Statements and Famous Misstatements" is the headline on the lead article in the June 5 issue of the popular Japanese weekly magazine Bungei Shunju. It features dramatic ejaculations of famous politicians, sports figures and entertainers, among others.
It is interesting to take a look at Japanese society in the light of — or, perhaps more appropriately, in the shadow of — some of these colorful statements.
Here's Takeo Fukuda, father of the present prime minister and himself top dog from 1976 to 1978: "When the people speak, it carries the force of the gods, but even the gods sometimes say weird things."
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