nomadlab writes: "Ms. Tanaka's visit to Washington DC was agreed to by the US government after strenuous efforts by the Japanese government. The objective of her trip was
to vindicate what she expressed about US foreign policies at meetings with her counterparts from other countries. She conveyed her messages of criticism
about the foreign polices of the US government to them. She must have told them faithfully what she believed.


Her address immediately caused problems in the Japanese political world.


During the conversation with her old classmates at the reception in German Town High School, The Weekly Post learned that Ms. Tanaka made a remark
about George Bush, "He is totally an asshole" in English...

There has never been a statesman in Japanese history that called a US president, 'an asshole.'

the whole report can be found here."