“NOT trusted” is how Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso described stockbrokers this month, before calling them kabuya, or “wide boys”.
On Tuesday the Japanese prime minister, Taro Aso, said that Germany's reluctance to use public spending aggressively stemmed from its lack of understanding of the importance of fiscal mobilisation.
A recent poll gave Prime Minister Taro Aso an approval rating below 10%.
Taro Aso has made several mistakes in previous speeches in Japanese parliament live broadcasts after he became prime minister.
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso visited Beijing just last week and had only good things to say about the current relationship.
Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso will meet Tuesday with President Barrack Obama.
After he left Washington last weekend, Japan's foreign minister, Taro Aso, and the defence minister, Fumio Kyuma, sat down with their American counterparts, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates.
Taro Aso's grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida, and father-in-law, Zenko Suzuki, were both Prime Ministers of Japan.
The presumed favourite is Taro Aso, foreign minister under both Mr Koizumi and Mr Abe and currently the LDP's secretary-general.
And Japanese foreign minister Toro also(Foreign Minister Taro Aso) said Mister Abe may visit China as early as October.
And now Prime Minister Taro Aso is headed to Washington to meet with the American President.
Taro Aso, who lost to Mr Abe in the fight to lead the LDP, remains foreign minister.
That result is consistent with months of expectations that LDP Prime Minister Taro Aso and his party would be defeated the DPJ and its leader - Japan's presumed next prime minister -Yukio Hatoyama.
Such was the diplomatic feint that this week saw a beleaguered Taro Aso steal the prize in the scramble to be first across the threshold of Barack Obama's White House.