民主党の代表選挙に向けての内輪の調整は不調に終わり、
小沢一郎も代表選挙に出ることになったようだ。
激突の後は、党分裂の危機となるのか？
上辺では、選挙後の相互協力を約束したと言う話だが、
これまでの小沢氏の言動からして、信用できるものではない。
小沢氏、民主代表選出馬へ＝菅首相との会談決裂(時事通信) - goo ニュース
小沢氏が党代表選に出馬表明 首相との会談物別れに(共同通信) - goo ニュース
2010年8月31日（火）18:19
民主党代表選をめぐり菅直人首相と小沢一郎前幹事長が３１日夕、党本部で会談した。小沢氏は菅首相との会談後、９月の代表選に出馬する意向を表明。首相も会談後、小沢氏と「選挙で戦って終わった後、協力しようと話した」と記者団に述べた。会談が物別れに終わったことで、９月１４日の投開票に向けて党を二分する激しい選挙戦に突入することになる。
日本国内世論的にみれば、小沢氏への支持は、どの世論調査でも２割未満であり、小沢氏が総理大臣になる芽は、最早無くなったと言えるようだが、党内での多数派工作で勝ち目があるのか、小沢氏は強気である。
その小沢氏が総理大臣になると言う「とんでもない」事態を予想して、海外メディアからも “No!” を付きつけられているようである。
アメリカ人は単細胞だしイギリス人は紳士面（小沢一郎）
…そんな小沢氏の「逆襲」に
【ニュースな英語】 加藤祐子 2010年8月31日（火）11:00
Japan senior lawmaker: Americans are simple-minded
（日本の国会議員が「アメリカ人は単細胞だ」）
Ozawa: Americans Are ‘Simple-Minded’
（小沢氏「アメリカ人は単細胞」）
'I don't like British people’ says Japanese politician ; Ichiro Ozawa
（日本の政治家が「俺はイギリス人が嫌いだ！」；小沢一郎」
Ichiro Ozawa strikes back The return of a destructive force in Japanese politics
（小沢一郎の逆襲 ： 日本の政治の壊し屋が帰って来た）
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日本が選ぶべきでない人
フィナンシャル・タイムズ社説
2010年8月30日（月）17:00 （日本語訳は上記をクリック）
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Finantial Times 原文
The wrong man for Japan
Finantial Times Published: August 29 2010 20:37
If Dante’s version of hell had nine circles of suffering, then Japan’s version of politics must have at least nine circles of farce. After only three months in the job, Naoto Kan – the third prime minister in a year – is being challenged for the leadership of his party. The grizzled pretender for the job of leading Japan from its deflationary funk is Ichiro Ozawa, a man more used to operating from the shadows than in the international spotlight. If Mr Ozawa, who recently referred to Americans as “single-celled organisms”, becomes prime minister, he will be Japan’s most interesting prime minister since Junichiro Koizumi left office in 2006. He would also be a disaster.
Mr Ozawa, doubtless a multi-celled organism, has some interesting ideas. He was one of the first to suggest that Japan become a “normal nation”, throwing off its postwar legacy of leaving its defence in US hands. In the 1990s, Washington championed him as a political and economic reformer, but has cooled on him more recently. The last US ambassador to Tokyo could not even arrange to meet him when he was leading a revolt against a Japanese mission to refuel US ships operating near Afghanistan. Mr Ozawa has also advocated friendlier ties with China, yet is openly contemptuous of that country’s one-party system.
More than his confusing foreign policy stance, Mr Ozawa is unfit to be prime minister because of his domestic record. Though strategically brilliant, he is quixotic and destructive. He was instrumental in bringing down the long-ruling Liberal Democratic party in the early 1990s and again last year. On the first occasion, he went on to undermine the coalition, paving the way for the LDP to return to power after a short absence. This time, he may repeat the trick. If, as some predict, his leadership challenge splits the Democratic Party of Japan, the LDP could sneak back into office.
The Japanese public dislikes him. In a recent poll, 79 per cent of respondents said they did not want him returning to an important party post. (He quit as secretary-general in part because of an alleged funding scandal.) Yet so out of touch are Japan’s politicians that he may win anyway. With support from around half his party’s MPs, Mr Ozawa has a good chance of defeating Mr Kan in the leadership contest on September 14. If the DPJ makes him its head, and hence prime minister, it will have betrayed its promise to bring Japan a new kind of politics. If it goes on to surrender power, it will only have itself to blame.
Finantial Times 2010-8-29 (Sun)
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