mercedo's Journal: New Candidates

Remember Takafumi Horie? He is a chairman of Livedoor company limited and abruptly bought as many as a half of all the stocks of one broadcasting company several months ago. In one of new candidates, Takafumi Horie, 32 was nominated, he has not decided yet though, I hope he would accept Mr Koizumi's invitation to the politics.

One of other candidates who is new to us is Kuniko Inoguchi , 53, professor at Sophia University, who was an ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2002 to 2004.

Both are well-known to not only in Japan but also outside Japan(?), but both have got a very liberal idea and strong advocates of privatisation.

Never trust a man in a suit

[Marxist Hacker 42]

An old American hacker bit of slang applies here. You see, the man in the suit paid more for his clothing. The reason he paid more for his clothing is because he has no skills, no talents with which to gain the respect of others. Since he cannot earn your respect on his own- he must use tricks of appearance and illusion to earn your respect. Thus, he buys a suit- for to look better is to get a better first impression.

That's the reason CEOs and presidents in private industry invariably wear suits- becau

Re:Never trust a man in a suit

[mercedo]

Oh so sorry, I was looking for a website for introduction of these two people suitable to this article with a photo attached, and two links were the ones. As Tokyo correspondent described, he is a maverick in many ways, very different from established images of CEOs, we never see him wearing ties and suits, so your comment happened(?) to prove him as a candidacy of the election.

Re:Never trust a man in a suit

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Good- we have a couple of CEOs here in Oregon like that- you never see Phil Knight (Nike fame) in anything other than seasonally appropriate workout wear, and you never see Les Schwab (local tire store magnate with 400 stores throughout the Pacific Northwest) without his trademark cowboy hat (he still thinks, despite the success of his tire stores, that his real job is being a cattle rancher in Pendelton, an operation that has never made him much money but at least provides a small portion of the beef for h