I was working this morning, watching a recording of a game that started at 9:00 a.m. with Otani as the starting pitcher.
Ohtani was the starting pitcher and batting second, and since it was an away game, he was up to bat right away in the first inning.
He hit a home run out of the blue! I was applauding him for doing it, but the defense was like the current Giants.
It reversed the game, but Angels led the game again.
I thought Otani would win ten games, but he was hit a slider and tied the game. Ohtani left the game in the fourth inning.
So I turned off the recording and read Kazuyoshi Hanada's regular column, Weekly Magazine Watching, to write this article to continue the previous chapter, and was surprised.
It is because I had hit the nail on the head 100% in the previous chapter.
As you know, I subscribe to Shukan Shincho every week just to read the last two columns by Masayuki Takayama and Yoshiko Sakurai.
Since I rarely read even the other pages of Shincho, I don't read Shukan Bunshun at all, except for occasionally reading it on my iPhone when I'm on the train.
So I had no way of knowing that the following special issue had already been released.
The following is from Kazuyoshi Hanada's regular column, "Weekly Magazine Watching," in today's Sankei Shimbun.
The LDP presidential race is likely to come down to Fumio Kishida, Sanae Takaichi, and Taro Kono in the end.
Each magazine that was to be ready and waiting for was immediately to single out candidates for criticism.
In the September 16 issue of the Shukan Bunshun, in a piece titled "The Identity of the 'Next Prime Minister,'" Kono, the minister in charge of vaccines, was slammed.
What awaits him are three pitfalls.
One is the "problem of habitual power harassment. In the last week's issue of the magazine, Bunshun has already reported in detail on his outbursts, such as telling a senior official of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, "Show me someone who understands Japanese.
(2) "Aides": "He doesn't have enough capable people to ask, 'How in the world is he going to form a cabinet?'" (The desk of the political section)
The third issue, none other than "Suga." "Suga's support will be negatively affected by the public's intense scrutiny of the prime minister.
One of the former administrative vice-ministers is worried that "it will be repeating the same failure of the Democratic Party of Japan."
"Mr. Kono, with his unrealistic policies such as 'balancing abandoning nuclear power generation and decarbonization,' has a sense of danger similar to that of former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who called for the relocation of the Futenma base out of the prefecture.
Speaking of which, on Yoshiko Sakurai's "Speech TV," Takashi Arimoto, head of the Sankei Shimbun's Sound Argument Research Office, said it well: "Taro Kono is the male version of Makiko Tanaka (former foreign minister).
As for Ms. Takaichi, her "faultfinding" was unsuccessful, and it was only "beholden to Mr. Abe (Shinzo)."
In the September 16 issue of Shukan Shincho, "One step ahead in the darkness of the 'Presidential Election,' 'Taro Kono' is a legend of eccentricity. The conclusion was, "Can Japan's being at the helm of the state be entrusted to a 'weirdo' who has drawn criticism for his 'shallow thinking' and 'self-indulgence'?
The concluding paragraph, "Fumio Kishida's Fierce Confession," introduces Mr. Kishida's arguments, which is not very "Shincho" at all.
But what about the fact that Seiko Noda is still talking about running for office?
Both Bunbun and Shincho mention that "the prime minister's husband is a former gangster should she become prime minister. That would be a problem.
On September 1, the Yomiuri Shimbun broke the news that Princess Mako would marry within the year.
The Yomiuri broke the news that Mako would marry before the end of the year, and Shincho immediately wrote, "Mako's 'runaway' marriage will destroy the 'Imperial Family.
Bunbun reported that "Mako has been visiting the Komuro family even before her engagement, and the whole story of her runaway marriage.
There is nothing new in the contents of either magazine, but the title of "Shincho" is bold.
(Editor-in-chief, Hanada Monthly)