Daily Monitor
Sunday May 02 2021
Summary
That was 2001 and in the build up to that period, Japan had experienced political turbulence and frequent changes of and in government which, had it been in Uganda, would have meant a complete shutdown of the country and a dramatic meltdown of the socio-economic order.
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How do you Japanese manage to stay so calm with all these upheavals in your government?” I asked the head of the Foreign Press Centre in Tokyo, my eyes betraying genuine wonder.
That was 2001 and in the build up to that period, Japan had experienced political turbulence and frequent changes of and in government which, had it been in Uganda, would have meant a complete shutdown of the country and a dramatic meltdown of the socio-economic order. I was amazed that the average Japanese went about their business like nothing had happened.