In the news, Japan's new Prime Minister is facing the music for not coming back home in the evening.
"Since taking the helm a month ago," according to AP (Japan PM under fire over pricey nightlife, October 23, 2008), Taro Aso has spent all but four nights out on the town at posh bars and eateries."
"Aso's haunts include an upscale hotel bar where coffee is poured out at $15 a cup, and a ritzy restaurant where the plates of grilled eel start at $175 a serving."
And "the opposition has seized on Aso's nights on the town, claiming the 68-year-old political blueblood and scion of a wealthy family is out of touch with the people."
This comes, of course, "while much of Japan is grappling with deepening economic turmoil" as does America, where Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, has also been under fire for a handsome $150,000 lavished on her by the Republican party to dress her up. Half of the money, or $75,000, is said to have been done away with in one single shopping trip.
Now, the author of these pages is not bothered about Palin's wardrobe. Nor am I concerned about Aso's eel-eating in the company of geisha girls and to the music of Shamisen. And, hand on heart, there's little I can do about the world economy as a whole other than suffer through it with you lot, my dearest. Readers, you know me. I'm not concerned with any of that. What I'm concerned with is – and I have made sure that it is buried deep in text, haven't I? – why Aso, the Japanese leader, is called a blueblood?
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