新聞社のワシントン特派員の中には、アメリカ新聞を丹念に読んでいる人がいるらしく、ワシントンポストのおちゃらけコラムまで真面目に読んだ挙げ句、日本に発信したようだ。(発信した本人も冗談半分だった可能性も否定出来ず)
誤算だったのは、冗談にしては余りに的確で愛嬌のある表現だったため、官房長官までも大真面目に対応してしまった事である。(ビジュアル的にもピッタリなのもツボに入っている)英語的にも loopy は、コラムニストの筆癖みたいな表現で、余り意味は無い感じに読める。官邸にキチンと英語の読める大人の人は居ないのであろうか。コラムよりそちらが心配だ。
これ以上書くと、同じ穴の狢になるので(もうなっている?)この辺で。
以下、鳩山、日本関連部分をワシントンホストから引用 。(太字は問題の loopy の入っている一分)興味ある人はご自分で判断を。
By far the biggest loser of the extravaganza was the hapless and (in the opinion of some Obama administration officials) increasingly loopy Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. He reportedly requested but got no bilat. The only consolation prize was that he got an "unofficial" meeting during Monday night's working dinner. Maybe somewhere between the main course and dessert?
A rich man's son, Hatoyama has impressed Obama administration officials with his unreliability on a major issue dividing Japan and the United States: the future of a Marine Corps air station in Okinawa. Hatoyama promised Obama twice that he'd solve the issue. According to a long-standing agreement with Japan, the Futenma air base is supposed to be moved to an isolated part of Okinawa. (It now sits in the middle of a city of more than 80,000.)
But Hatoyama's party, the Democratic Party of Japan, said it wanted to reexamine the agreement and to propose a different plan. It is supposed to do that by May. So far, nothing has come in over the transom. Uh, Yukio, you're supposed to be an ally, remember? Saved you countless billions with that expensive U.S. nuclear umbrella? Still buy Toyotas and such?
Meanwhile, who did give Hatoyama some love at the nuclear summit? Hu did. Yes, China's president met privately with the Japanese prime minister on Monday.
誤算だったのは、冗談にしては余りに的確で愛嬌のある表現だったため、官房長官までも大真面目に対応してしまった事である。(ビジュアル的にもピッタリなのもツボに入っている)英語的にも loopy は、コラムニストの筆癖みたいな表現で、余り意味は無い感じに読める。官邸にキチンと英語の読める大人の人は居ないのであろうか。コラムよりそちらが心配だ。
これ以上書くと、同じ穴の狢になるので(もうなっている?)この辺で。
以下、鳩山、日本関連部分をワシントンホストから引用 。(太字は問題の loopy の入っている一分)興味ある人はご自分で判断を。
By far the biggest loser of the extravaganza was the hapless and (in the opinion of some Obama administration officials) increasingly loopy Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. He reportedly requested but got no bilat. The only consolation prize was that he got an "unofficial" meeting during Monday night's working dinner. Maybe somewhere between the main course and dessert?
A rich man's son, Hatoyama has impressed Obama administration officials with his unreliability on a major issue dividing Japan and the United States: the future of a Marine Corps air station in Okinawa. Hatoyama promised Obama twice that he'd solve the issue. According to a long-standing agreement with Japan, the Futenma air base is supposed to be moved to an isolated part of Okinawa. (It now sits in the middle of a city of more than 80,000.)
But Hatoyama's party, the Democratic Party of Japan, said it wanted to reexamine the agreement and to propose a different plan. It is supposed to do that by May. So far, nothing has come in over the transom. Uh, Yukio, you're supposed to be an ally, remember? Saved you countless billions with that expensive U.S. nuclear umbrella? Still buy Toyotas and such?
Meanwhile, who did give Hatoyama some love at the nuclear summit? Hu did. Yes, China's president met privately with the Japanese prime minister on Monday.