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Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007 Joking Koizumi fell to his knees before Bush: bookPARIS (Kyodo) During the 2002 Group of Eight summit in Canada, then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fell to his knees and prostrated himself before U.S. President George W. Bush in a playful show of customary Japanese bowing, a French photographer wrote in a recently published book.
Pascal Rostain relates the anecdote in the tell-all book "Scoop," which he coauthored with another renowned French photographer, Bruno Mouron. The book, which gives the inside story of their news coverage, says Jacques Chirac, a well-known Japanophile, spoke of the different ways of bowing in Japan depending on who one is facing. Koizumi then came up in front of Bush and said the way to bow before you is this, and fell to both his knees and prostrated himself. Rostain photographed the moment but is not making it public, saying it could shock the Japanese public. Rostain wrote in his book that Koizumi was someone who never missed a chance to joke around, and in this respect he and then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi were the wittiest. |
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