Koizumi nurtures a cult of personality

[Foxy Brown]

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan hopped down from a campaign platform in a Tokyo square last week, his trademark gray mane rippling in the wind as he pumped his fists through an evening drizzle. Scores of teenagers, grandfathers, and young mothers gasped, casting aside umbrellas and whipping out cellphone cameras. Electronic clicks and flashes filled the damp air along with a booming chant from a bullhorn:

''KOIzumi! KOIzumi! KOIzumi!"

[Cidolfas]

Mofucker cleaned up today.  http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20050912p2a00m0na019000c.html

Now get cracking on that postal system privatization!  頑張れ!