(RR#1) A Newspaper, Poll, and Return of the Kei Debates!

Day 773, 23:03 • Published in Japan Japan • by Myung Kei


Contents:
1) Headline
2) World Events
3) Opinion Collumn
4) Links

Well it is finally here! The first edition of my "professional" newspaper (I am already trembling as I type here 😛) for eJapan and my current small audience of subscribers. If I have left anything out or you feel as though some improvements could me made, then by all means message me here. There is also a poll for you today located at this link

Congratulations to Srog Norsktag for the wonderful titles you see here today!


Election Time!

Well its that season again, with the beginning of the New Year already in place election bids are running high as the two most dominate candidates in the election square off against each other: Kita Ikki, Minister of Defense and long time ISP congressman, and the incumbent President Dokomo.

There is a interesting aspect of this race unlike many of the past races eJapan has ha😛

The Major Parties have Opposite Candidates

Unlike the previous few elections (dating back to the Minamoto administration) where the ISP and Godzilla parties were on similar sides in the elections, this is the first major battle between the 2 dominate parties in the political history of eJapan. Both parties must now rely on the power of the smaller political coalitions for votes and support in this election, making the upcoming battle challenging for both sides. The ISP must convince the electorate that Kita Ikki's longstanding service and military record counteract his periodic inactivity in order to gain votes. On the other hand, the Godzilla party must be able to state how the administration worked in the previous few months and how another month can fix some of the other issues that need attending to.

The Godzilla party must be very careful in the upcoming days, the Kita campaign has already announced a more neutral leaning Foreign policy that has a more populist approach to the eJapanese public, mostly because a large majority of eJapanese would like to stay neutral in the PHOENIX and EDEN conflict. However the ISP must be cautious and not try to oversell its message, along with facing the "inactivity syndrome" that has plagued the past administrations. If that cannot be overcome by this candidate, then the electorate (if they vote for Kita) will have felt they have been given a "raw deal" and vote differently Febuary.

Now, a moment that many have been waiting for....

The Kei Debates have Returned!

After the success of the first round of debates, a new set shall be hosted by myself and a few of my contributors in #eJapan live Sunday from around 15:00-18:00 erep time(unofficial time frame) on #eJapanlive @ Coldfront IRC.
Come out and see Kita and Dokomo square off at not only my questions, but your questions as well!

Instructions can be found here

Hope everyone has a great time!


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This is it! eMerican and China invade Heilongjiang

Battle 1
Battle 2

Since I would like to get to other matters, I do not need to stress how important this battle is for eMerica, eChina, and eAsia as a whole like all the other dozens of articles have already. If either battle is victorious in the effort, Hungary's long occupation of this important world territory will be over and their economic advantages will be severely curved in the upcoming battles. As a high iron region this region is one of the most talked about in the world, and all eyes are on this battle as the world holds its breath.

The JIN is ordered to fight in this battle via Florida, good luck to those brave men and women!

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Report Card of President Dokomo: A look back



For the opinion collumn today the feature will be based on reviewing the past achievements....and trip ups, of Incumbent President Dokomo in his November and December 09' terms. In the following section I attempt to honestly grade the presidency of Dokomo as the election draws near:

Economy: A-

After avoiding the bank theft, the current treasury of the nation is simply overflowing with gold and witnessing a large surplus thanks to the work of Finance Minister Vorph and others for tinkering with the exchange rate to bring in maximum profits. The streamlining of the budget with Spreadsheets was a promise also achieved by the administration to the people. However, like any tinkering of the exchange rate thus far, there have been a searies of inflation upswings which has hit consumers bad in some areas, with supply and demand out of wack in the previous month. Wages have also been sporadic, hitting all time highs and lows over the presidency, overall a black spot on an otherwise clean policy.

Military: B+

Blunders such as the "Lolz French Support" (where the "support" we gave our French Allies was only over 1000 points of damage) debacle in the Military have been facepalms of the administration. Military orders of the administration in regards to the South Korean resistance wars have also been confusing the the Japanese public (a few people were even IRC banned over the confusion for accidentally saying the wrong orders). When then candidate Smily ran against incumbent Dokomo last December, Smily raised issues with the underreformed military of the administration. The debate turned into a grammatical war that was since long forgotton but at least brought up a week ago to finally settle the issue of military reform. There have been a few flops in this section, but promises to the people were kept and the Military has operated
within its capacity.

Foreign Policy: C

This section of the presidency has been argued the most in the late media. The most controversial of all the foreign policy decisions Dokomo has made, in fact the foreign policy move was his
decision to allow the eMericans through Kyushu in defense of China. This significantly boosted eJapan's image throughout the Asian and EDEN sphere of influence, while at the same time sending PHOENIX relations 'up in flames' (pun intended). While this is not nessecarily a bad thing, what did kill the administration in this category was its ineffectiveness to pick a long term Foreign Affairs Minister and the signing of MPP's with Spain and Poland. These MPP's were entirely unessecary in the end and proved to be a disaster for eJapanese relations with "old allies" like France and Germany; the category was also bogged down with the inability to see the eIndo invasions of eMalay more than "training wars". A great boost to Asian relations, however the little things compiled and chipped away from this category

Internal Issues: B-

In short, this category is for how the country progressed internally in regards to national unity, the development of politics, and the success of cultural and eJapanese events via the Cultural Secretary and others.
Overall the country has united in stance on several occasions during the administration, including the Banking Crisis, the Kyushu invasion, and on the ever changing global network. However, the partisan divide between those known as the "FoH" (group of eNK players now residing in eJapan) the "Old Guard/White Knights" (Members of eJapan before eNK citizens migrated to eJapan and those in support of the Oraizan government) and the "New Japanese" (those eborn during or after the Kokawa administration) has become so severe that regular congressional votes and debates are now done almost entirely among party lines. The country is fractious, and the current administration has been unable to solve this problem (citizens like no1kevlin suddenly went from soild supporters to a vocal opposition). Furthermore, cultural events such as Empress Day (a long standing tradition) were left unnoticed, of course with the events that have transpired this could be considered a given, however it was overlooked none the less. On the single issues the administration has been able to draw much support, but the partisan sting is leaving the president looking unelectable this 5th.

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-Go to the eJapan forums

-Try out eJapan's IRC on the Coldfront Server at the channel "#eJapan". on Mibbit.com. Select the Server Coldfront, a nickname for yourself, and the channel #eJapan.

-Don't forget to take the poll here

-Have some New Year's Fireworks from Toyama, Japan! 🙂http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64fbdqD0xWY

And that's a wrap!