“You know, they used to call them ‘hygiene sacks’? What’s up with that, man?”

I really love Junichiro Koizumi.  Not because he worships at a shrine that honors war criminals and doesn’t care what other countries think, and not because he looks like Richard Gere.  What I like about Koizumi is the fact that he is a lewd oyaji.  It seems that Mainichi’s WaiWai column has done yet another piece on Koizumi’s famous lewdness  (other tales of his lewdness can be found in my previous entry on the subject).  Let’s take a look at some of the gems it contains:

He got his chance to display his dirtiness during the meeting with vice-ministers after Health Vice Minister Masao Akamatsu spoke to the group about how he had spent the previous day handing out free condoms as part of an AIDS awareness campaign.

Koizumi butted in on Akamatsu’s speech, pointing out the irony of the closeness between the Japanese pronunciation of condom — kondomu — and the phrase “kondo umu,” which means to “give birth soon.”

Koizumi continued with what he seems to have thought was a bit of fetus filter fun.

“You know they used to call them ‘hygiene sacks?’” Shukan Gendai quotes the prime minister telling the much younger vice minister. “We used to blow them up and play with them like they were balloons.”

Koizumi, the men’s weekly says, then proceeded to spend about 30 minutes telling jokes about condoms while the mostly male vice-ministers sat and listened. Economy Vice Minister Akira Matsu, the only woman present at the meeting, remained silent throughout.

Once he’d finished bouncing his rubber jokes off the vice-ministers, Koizumi turned his attention to dirty diplomacy related to former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, who the premier had met in the days just prior to the meeting.

“(Primakov) got married to a woman more than 20 years younger than him. He says that’s what makes him so powerful,” the magazine quotes bachelor Koizumi saying. “Now, in my case, my power comes from the fact that I HAVEN’T been married for more than 20 years.”Political pundits say that Koizumi’s crudeness is known throughout Japanese political circles. One Diet member the weekly doesn’t name recalls meeting Koizumi not long after he assumed the premiership in April 2001.

“Not long after Koizumi became prime minister, he came over to me and said, ‘Gee, you’re lucky. You’re free. Ever since I’ve become prime minister, all I’ve been able to do is this.’ He was doing a gesture for masturbation. I was a little shocked. It was, after all, the prime minister doing that,” the Diet member tells Shukan Gendai.

The article goes on to claim that Koizumi will probably get married after he retires in September.  What lucky lady is going end up with the studly former prime minister?
Oh, by the way, in a story totally unrelated to the male chauvism of Japan’s political elite, some law was passed against sex discrimination.  I wonder why they passed such a law.  There is no sex discrimination in Japan: women get paid less because their only duty is to pour coffee and make copies, it has nothing to do with gender!