Today we visited the Diet. For you ignorant Americans, that is the Japanese congress. As you can see, they have way more people in the House of Representatives than we do, but they're also a lot smaller - so the total body weight of the Japanese and American HOR are equal. The crazy balcony is for the Emperor. No joke. Unfortunately, the Emperor has never showed up for a session, so the balcony has never been used.
The rest of the diet building was really cool and fancy. They are hooked up! Oh, as we were entering the building, we had to go through the metal detector. Of course, many of us had bags or purses. The way to do it is to place your bag on a table, go through the metal detector, and pick up your bag on the other side. The bag never gets screened or even casually looked in. Very nice, Japanese security man.
3 comments:
so the total body weight of the Japanese and American HOR are equal.....you told a funny. ; p
you do realize what the Diet looks like riiight?
the muppets theater ofcourse!
Horse???? Hormone????????!!! You can't find any shrimp tempura?
Great blog - I'm so glad your mom thought to send the url to me and Jane.
Love, Judy
Have they tried to lure the Emperor there? Whenever I don't want to go to a meeting, my boss brings those little mini peanut butter cups and then I can't resist... could that strategy work for Emperor as well? Well, we know one thing - when I am Emperor, I most certainly will show up for a session, provided they serve delicious snacks. You are all henceforth invited to that momentous occasion!
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