Obama Japan

Obama's Japan connection...

"Obama, Japan, is rooting for candidate Obama, hoping that if he becomes the US president he will put this ancient fishing town of 32,000 people firmly on the tourist map and, just maybe, choose it for an international summit...Lest cynics find the city's efforts naive, it was Obama himself who first drew attention to the connection. Obama, speaking to Japan's TBS network in December 2006, said that when he flew once to Tokyo, an officer stamping his passport told him of the town."

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