Japanese PM's Wife Underwhlemed

“He’s more of a No 2 or a No 3 person rather than being at the top. Even as a family member, I could not give him even a passing grade for his delivery of a policy speech, or for the question-and-answer sessions after he became Prime Minister.”
-Nobuko Kan, wife of the new Japanese leader Naoto Kan, rates her husband in her new book Now You Are Prime Minister, How On Earth Is Japan Going to Change? It’s good to know that Mrs. Kan is keeping up the Democratic Party of Japan’s tradition of interesting first ladies.