Stuff about someone other than me!

The Japanese Imperial family, which is constitutionally incapable of anything more than merely symbolic functions, is currently being headed by an Emperor who recently had prostate surgery. While he is still in rehab, there is the very real possibility that the operation has made him sexually, as well as politically, impotent. Coming on the heels of fan-favorite sumo wrestler Takanohana's injury-forced retirement, a year in which two members of parliament were arrested while in office, a 12-year economic recession, and the continued inability of the Japanese Self-Defense Force to produce one viable giant fighting robot, these have not been great days for Japan's self-image.