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Who is Taro Aso?

The Times (of London) doesn’t seem to have a clue. Their two page spread of the leaders in London for a G20 summit included the following photograph of Prime Minister Aso:

Aso

In case you are wondering, that man is actually Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

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3 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - April 4, 2009 at 10:18 am

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YAAY!

my President!
TofuUnion

I wonder Japan protest to the article of Times (of London).
At least Japanese government doesn’t want its people know about that.
Harry

That’s not quite fair. The Times identified Taro Aso correctly but you can see from the snippet that they then messed up the numbering. It goes as follows:

19 Lula Ignacio de Silva
20 Jan Peter Balkenende
2 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
21 Taro Aso
23 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Aso is in the right sequence but Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been misnumbered as “2″ instead of “21″ which then throws off Aso’s numbering. It’s not a case, thank goodness, of “all Asians look alike” but it’s still a mistake.