John Campbell writes:

"Will Hatoyama challenge Noda next?" (2012/08/21)

Perhaps. And you know what they say, "If Hatoyama comes, can Kan be far behind?" A panoply of riches if you ask me. But then they also say, "One mountain pigeon does not a DPJ Indian Summer make."

On a lighter note, the Japanese media is wont to take any ambiguous uttering and spin it into the direst of statements to fit the preferred narrative. Sometimes, the principals actually do speak in code, but just as often what you end up getting is what you really heard.
So I'll believe it when they come out and say it clearly, particularly in the case of this unenthusiastic scion of the Abe-Kishi dynaasty.

Jun