Raw Video: Drunken Japanese Finance Minister?

he was having some kind of diabetic problem when thys happend.... i read the japanese news about thys guy

If a man of his position can't hold liquor at an important G8 economic summit meeting, he's "not fit" to be finance minister. As alleged, if he indeed mixed liquor with cold medicine and/or sleeping pills, he's not smart enough....regardless if he's an Univ. of Tokyo graduate. If he wants to use jetlag and hard schedules as bad excuses, he's certainly not "tough enough" to handle the job. Hillary C. has harder schedules than this guy traveling all over Asia and, most likely, can outdrink him.

Damn, he needs to lay off the NyQuil.

Whats the trouble. He just prooved what a hard working man he is. Have you any idea how much vodka it takes to make russians sign a deal behind closed doors? :)

He's wasted! He's drunk as a skunk!

I say, they should FIRE that sleepy-eyed mexican man!

yeah that "cold medicine" he took must downed with couple shots of whiskey and vodka.

too funny! maybe he downed a gallon of sake flavored cough syrup?

If he was really drunk they'd have turned the whole place into a karaoke party.

i hate being fired for drunkeness

The minister had the flu and right before this press conference, the guy took too much cold medicine hoping that he'd feel better for the press conference, but it made everything worse and the guy with his flu became extremely drowsy. He was fired by the Japanese government, I think the government might have overreacted on this one, since the minister WASN'T drunk, he was just drowsy & tired from the flu and the cold medicine.

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