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Sunday, October 4, 2009
SHOICHI NAKAGAWA, THE DEATH OF A DEAD MAN WALKING?
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are investigating the death of the 56 year old, troubled and drunken former finance minister; who was forced to resign his office over a drunken misbehaviour at the G7 meeting in Rome, Italy, last February 2009! He subsequently lost his seat in parliament during his party's abysmal election performance, last August 30, 2009. Mr Shoichi Nakagawa was a former lawmaker from the northern island of Hokkaido for more than 25 years. A heavyweight in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), in an election speech he made to his constituents in the town of Obihiro on the northern island of Hokkaido, during his failed re-election campaign last August, Shoichi Nakagawa said, “For the sake of Japan, for the sake of all of you, I shall renounce alcohol.” Icheoku says, this guy would have been a good commercial for any alcoholic beverage company as their spokesman; but he died before they could discover his talents?
A former LDP rising star and potential prime minister candidate, late Shoichi Nakagawa held several Cabinet-level positions including agriculture minister and trade minister before becoming the finance minister in September 2008. He once called for Japan to consider developing nuclear weapons in response to North Korea's ratcheting its nuclear capabilities? He was also pro-Taiwan, a position which angered China which sees the island as part of its territory. Icheoku says, while the Tokyo police works to confirm the suicide, may his soul now find the peace which eluded his physical body. Adieu, Shoichi Nakagawa!
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