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Koizumi releases stress with legendary lewdness

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's meeting in November last year with
Greek counterpart Kostas Karamanlis raised barely a ripple in the
media, but Asahi Geino (3/23) says their talks bordered on the filthy
as Japan's premier let loose with the lechery those close to him say he
is known for.

"Their roughly 40-minute meeting was filled with dirty talk. Someone on
the prime minister's side has issued a strict order that what went on
never be made public," an insider from Nagatacho, the Tokyo district
that forms the Japanese political heart, tells Asahi Geino. "Koizumi
started off with the usual, polite greetings. You know, 'I'm pleased to
meet you' and 'welcome.' Then he turned to Prime Minister Karamanlis
and said, 'You Greeks are pretty amazing.' The prime minister didn't
have a clue what he was talking about, so Koizumi turned to him and
said, 'Sex. It looks like the Greeks are pretty good at sex.'"

Koizumi was probably prompted to pursue that topic of conversation
since just days before his Nov. 11 summit with Karamanlis, the media
had been filled with stories about a survey showing that Japanese
remained the world's most sexually inactive couples, the opposite of --
the Greeks!

"Their conversation was carried out through interpreters. The
interpreter was worried about how much they should translate and was at
a loss. Koizumi's excitement persisted through the meeting and the
interpreter duly passed on just about all the dirty things the premier
was talking about, including when he said to Karamanlis, 'Frankly, I'm
jealous of you guys.' Karamanlis then got in on the act, saying, 'Well,
when I was younger...but now I have a wife.' And things went on like
that for a while. They laughed about how when they were young, the
moment they finished having sex once, they were ready straight away to
have it again."

Karamanlis had come to Japan to talk about things like the economy, but
instead had a schoolboys' session with Koizumi, the lowbrow men's
weekly says. Koizumi, meanwhile, seems to have been acting in what is
for him fairly regular behavior.

"On his days off, Koizumi likes walking around the garden of the New
Prime Minister's Official Residence, which is located beside the old
residence. He sings opera songs at the top of his voice while on these
strolls. But, apparently, he also romps around wearing only his
undies," a source from Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party tells
Asahi Geino. "The prime minister is under enormous stress and I guess
that's the way he relieves it."

Koizumi is supposedly quick with quips that make others queasy,
especially when it comes to talking about racy topics. Those at a
monthly lunch the prime minister holds at his residence for the heads
of the country's top bureaucracies ended up getting a serving of
sauciness from Koizumi, which definitely wasn't the type of topping
they wanted when they were tucking into raw fish.

"He'll pick up something from a boxed lunch and remark how it resembles
female genitalia, or how it can improve your libido," a political beat
desk editor says. "He'll see some meat and start talking about his
meat, telling stories that are too rude to even repeat."

Koizumi doesn't save his dinner dirtiness for the public sector, he
also serves it up to private industry figures at mealtimes, too, such
as the time he dined with Yomiuri Group Chairman Tsuneo Watanabe.

"When the conversation moved to classical music and filth, his eyes
glittered in an entirely new light," Asahi Geino quotes one of Japan's
weekly saying last year about Koizumi's meal with Watanabe. (By Ryann
Connell)

March 17, 2006

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