I’m heavily involved with the election in Japan, where polls show the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is going to going to get its ass handed to it by the Democratic Party of Japan. This would be only the second time in more than 50 years that the LDP lost. The first time, about 16 years ago, it was out of power for all of 11 months before it came right back.

This is one of those work trips were I travel to an exotic (to me) place and spend the entire time in an office. Let’s hope there’s time for a field trip somewhere in there.