2009年5月12日火曜日

Hope Lives!

This morning's Yomiuri Shimbun carried an editorial cartoon by Takeru Suzuki that was so eloquent I'm going to repeat it here.

Remember the post about Ichiro Ozawa and his money scandal? How he believed he was untouchable because "the people love him?" Only in his dreams!

The cartoon showed him holding a cell phone with the full, three bar symbol. The caption says "the message is finally getting through". Today's headlines are the same in every paper: Ichiro Ozawa--the man who has done more than any living Japanese to bring a military/industrial complex to life in a country that doesn't want one--will step down at last.

Maybe we'll get to keep our universal health coverage and an educational system that yields a hundred percent literacy after all.