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NEWS: Cosplay Summit Convenes at Japan's Foreign Ministry

Foreign Minister Taro Aso is such an avid manga fan that he is known to read comics in the back of his official car between appointments, but he was away at a meeting of Asian foreign ministers in Manila.

His place was taken by Vice Foreign Minister Katsuhito Asano, who clumsily imitated classic anime moves when asked to pose and smiled wryly at the crowd of reporters packing the room.

"My boss is a total manga geek. He must be sorry to miss this," he said, adding: "When we talk about serious foreign policy, we don't get this kind of media response."

It's rather nice to know that government officials can be nerds/geeks as well!

I would have liked to have seen pictures of Asano-san doing anime poses! That would have been interesting! lol! I'd say he's a rather good sport!

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"My boss is a total manga geek. He must be sorry to miss this," he said, adding: "When we talk about serious foreign policy, we don't get this kind of media response."

But, it's also really sad that we (society) give more media coverage to the superficial (Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan - I'm looking at you!) then we do to more important things.

Those dolls are gorgeous. While not my thing really, but how much do those MRSP for?