Tetsu Katayama was here ...

[colonel Oink]

We recently discussed Tojo's absence as the country's leader here, and it reminded me of another divergence I noticed some time ago. The leader of democratic Japan is Tetsu Katayama, but I think this is not entirely authentic. Firstly, the Democratic Party here is the Constitutional Democratic Party, and Katayama has been a member of socialist unions all his life. Secondly, he was far from the brightest politician of that era, and banally not even the first prime minister - minister of post-war Japan. It seems to me that Saito Takao or Kijuro Sidehara would be more appropriate here.

 

[Krey_Lollipop]

Isn't this a bit of a "problem" in general? I seem to recall the democratic leader of Germany also being with the wrong party or something along those lines.

That said, it might not always be easy to make the correct pick for who should be the democratic leader (and what party said leader should belong to) of a non democracy. What I'm thinking is that the opposition and it's leader isn't necessarily the same as the future democratic government.

But as a closing statement I know almost nothing about japanese politics (aside from Shinzo Abe being PM), so do discuss that.

 

[Ketchup & friends]

We've made a proposal in the main discussion on Japan's leaders. including a way to implement all three of them.